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0106 The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.1
The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.1 / Page 106 (Color Image)

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I. Marco Polo's Itineraries, No. I. WESTERN ASIA. This includes also " Sketch showing the chief Monarchies of Asia, in the latter part of the 13th century."

Map illustrating the geographical position of the CITY of SARAI. 4. Plan of part of the remains of the same city. Reduced from a Russian plan published by M. Grigorie r:

29 & 30. Reduced FACSIMILE of the BUDDHIST INSCRIPTION of the

Mongol Era, on the Archway at KIU-YONG KWAN in the

Pass of Nan-k'au, north-west of Peking, showing the characters in use under the Mongol Dynasty. Photogravure from the Recueil des documents de l'Epoque Mongole, by H. H. Prince ROLAND BONAPARTE. See an Article by Mr. Wylie in the J. R. A. S. for 187o, p. 14.

Plan of AYAS, the Laias of Polo. From an Admiralty Chart. 41. Plan of position of DILÁWAR, the supposed site of the Dilavar of Polo. Ext. from a Survey by Lt.-Col. D. G. Robinson, R.E. 114. Marco Polo's Itineraries, No. H. Routes between KERMAN and HORMUZ.

178. Marco Polo's Itineraries, No. III. Regions on and near the UPPER Oxus.

„   „   305. Heading, in the old Chinese seal-character, of an INSCRIPTION

on a Memorial raised by Kúblái Kaan to a Buddhist Ecclesiastic, in the vicinity of his summer-palace at SHANGTU in Mongolia. Reduced from a facsimile obtained on the spot by Dr. S. W Bushell, 1872, and by him lent to the Editor.

„ 319. The CHO-KHANG. The grand Temple of Buddha at Lhasa, from The Journey to Lhasa, by SARAT CHANDRA DAS, by kind permission of the Royal Geographical Society.

352. " Table d'Or de Commandement; " the PAYZA of the MONGOLS,

from a specimen found in Siberia. Reduced to one-half the scale of the original, from an engraving in a paper by I. J. Schmidt in the Bulletin de la Classe Historico-Philologique de l'Acad. Imp. des Sciences, St.-Pétersbourg, tom. iv. No. 9.

355. Second Example of a Mongol PaYza with superscription in the Uighúr character, found near the Dnieper River, 1845. From Trans. of the Oriental Section, Imp. Soc. of Archceology of St. Petersburg, vol. v. The Inscription on this runs : "By the strength of Eternal Heaven, and thanks to Its Great Power, the illan who obeys not the order of Abdullah shall be guilty, shall die."

>>   376. Plan of PEKING as it is, and as it was about A.D. 1290.

426. BANK-NOTE of the MING Dynasty, on one-half the scale of the original. Reduced from a genuine note in the possession of the British Museum. Was brought back from Peking after the siege of the Legations in 1900.

448. Mongol " Compendium Instrument."

45o. Mongol Armillary Sphere.

452. Observatory Terrace.

454. Observatory Instruments of the Jesuits. All these from photographs kindly lent to the present Editor by Count de Semallé.

„last page   Marco Polo's Itineraries. No. IV. EASTERN ASIA. This
includes also Sketch Map of the Ruins of SHANGTU, after Dr. BUSHELL ; and Enlarged Sketch of the Passage of the Hwang-ho or Karamoran on the road to Si-ngan fu (see vol. ii. pp. 25-27) from the data of Baron von Richthofen.