The Travels of Marco Polo
by Manuel Komroff (ed), Nikolai Fyodorovitch Lapshin (ill)
- Used
- Very Good
- Condition
- Very Good/No jacket
- Seller
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Berkeley, California, United States
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About This Item
Cover is in excellent condition. Spine is slightly shaken, but binding is secure. Text block is foxed, not visible on pages. Inside is clean and unmarked.
Synopsis
Books of the Marvels of the World or Description of the World (Divisament dou monde), also nicknamed Il Milione ("The Million") or Oriente Poliano and commonly called The Travels of Marco Polo, is a 13th-century travelogue by Rustichello da Pisa and Marco Polo, describing the supposed travels of the latter through Asia, Persia, China, and Indonesia between 1271 and 1298. It was a very famous and popular book in the 13th century.
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- Bookseller
- Moe's Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1140694
- Title
- The Travels of Marco Polo
- Author
- Manuel Komroff (ed), Nikolai Fyodorovitch Lapshin (ill)
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Easton Press
- Date Published
- 1962
- Keywords
- Jazkia
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...