lx, 381 pp. Edited from the Elizabethan Translation of John Frampton, with Introduction, Notes and Appendix by N.M. Penzer. Color frontispiece from a medieval illuminated manuscript; 11 maps, 1 of them folding; facsimile of the title-page of the 1579 London edition. 10x7½, quarter vellum & cloth, spine lettered in gilt. No. 931 of 1050 copies printed on Japon Vellum by Walter Lewis at the University Press, Cambridge.
With inscription on front pastedown, "Presented to Admiral H.E. Yarnell, U.S.N., by Mr. Paul Fagan of San Francisco, Peiping, China, June 21, 1937," and his bookplate. There is also the bookplate of John Sinkankas. Small bookseller's sticker of French Bookstore, Peiping, China, on rear pastedown. Finely printed edition Marco Polo's classic account, with interesting provenance, having come from the land sought by the Venetian traveler, where he spent so many years.