Mongol Armillary Sphere.
Observatory Terrace.
Observatory Instruments of the Jesuits. All these from photographs kindly
lent to the present Editor by Count de Semalle.
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.
WOODCUTS PRINTED WITH THE TEXT.
INTRODUCTORY NOTICES.
A MEDIAEVAL SHIP.
COAT OF ARMS of SIR HENRY YULE.
ARMS of the POLO family, according to Priuli.
ARMS of the POLO family, according to Marco Barbaro. (See p. 7, note.)
Autograph of HETHUM or HAYTON I. King of (Cicilian) Armenia; copied from
Codice Diplomatico del Sacro Militare Ordine Gerosolemitano, I. 135. The
signature is attached to a French document without date, granting the
King's Daughter "Damoiselle Femie" (Euphemia) in marriage to Sire Julian,
son of the Lady of Sayete (Sidon). The words run: Thagavor Haiwetz ("Rex
Armenorum"), followed by the King's cypher or monogram; but the initial
letter is absent, probably worn off the original document.
The PIAZZETTA at VENICE in the 14th century. From a portion of the
Frontispiece Miniature of the MS. of Marco Polo in the Bodleian. (Borrowed
from the National Miscellany, published by J. H. Parker, Oxford, for
1853-55; and see Street's Brick and Marble, etc., 1855, pp.
