A 13th century mission to the Court of the Mongols
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Beskrivning
YAZYKOV, DIMITRII IVANOVICH (ed. and trans.). Sobranie putesestvij k tataram i drugim voztocnym naorodam v 13, 14 i 15 stoletijach. I. Plano-Karpini. II. Ascelin. (text in Russian: Collection of travels to the Tartars and other eastern people in the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries). St. Petersburg 1825.
4:o (about 267x205 mm.). (5), VI-XXI, (1 blank), 7), 8-306, (4, last blank) pp.
New brown half calf, gilt spine in six compartments, speckled edges. Minor foxing and spotting. Chinese stamp in red on half-title. Text in parallel Latin and Russian.
Löwendahl: China illustrata nova. Supplement, 1711.
Pp. 1-217 contain Giovanni da Piano Carpini´s report of a mission sent by Pope Innocent IV to the Court of the Mongol Khan.
Pp. 219-263 contain an account of another mission dispatched in 1245 by Pope Innocent IV ´ad tartaros´, led by the Dominican Ascelinus.
From the library of Swedish antiquarian bookdealer Björn Löwendahl (1941-2013).
Auktionsnummer:
6218
Datum:
2017-11-21