Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 504 pages including index. Bright, square copy, no marking. important work. Concerns the Nativist Movements, the Klan, the Protocols, the Nazis, et al circa 1943. Clean copy, no dust jacket.
Hardcover. London, George Allen & Unwin, reprint, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine. 184 pages, clean, bright copy. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, N.Y., The Monacelli Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 1164 pages, illustrated throughout with photos in b&w. Over 1,200 b/w archival photographs. The book lists buildings by type and by location and is rather a wonderful survey of nineteenth century New York and Brooklyn. Large heavy volume. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO SIZE & WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Softcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 205 pages. In 1774, Boston bookseller Henry Knox married Lucy Waldo Flucker, the daughter of a prominent Tory family. Although Lucy's father was the third-ranking colonial official in Massachusetts, the couple joined the American cause after the Battles of Lexington and Concord and fled British-occupied Boston. Knox became a soldier in the Continental Army, where he served until the war's end as Washington's artillery commander. While Henry is well known to historians, his private life and marriage to Lucy remain largely unexplored. Phillip Hamilton tells the fascinating story of the Knoxes' relationship amid the upheavals of war. Like John and Abigail Adams, the Knoxes were often separated by the revolution and spent much of their time writing to one another. They penned nearly 200 letters during the conflict, more than half of which are reproduced and annotated for this volume.This correspondence--one of the few collections of letters between revolutionary-era spouses that spans the entire war--provides a remarkable window into the couple's marriage. Clean copy.
Softcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, reprint, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 311 pages. As the Civil War drew to a close, newly emancipated black women workers made their way to Atlanta-the economic hub of the newly emerging urban and industrial south-in order to build an independent and free life on the rubble of their enslaved past. In an original and dramatic work of scholarship, Tera Hunter traces their lives in the postbellum era and reveals the centrality of their labors to the African-American struggle for freedom and justice. Household laborers and washerwomen were constrained by their employers' domestic worlds but constructed their own world of work, play, negotiation, resistance, and community organization. Hunter follows African-American working women from their newfound optimism and hope at the end of the Civil War to their struggles as free domestic laborers in the homes of their former masters. We witness their drive as they build neighborhoods and networks and their energy as they enjoy leisure hours in dance halls and clubs. We learn of their militance and the way they resisted efforts to keep them economically depressed and medically victimized. Finally, we understand the despair and defeat provoked by Jim Crow laws and segregation and how they spurred large numbers of black laboring women to migrate north. Clean copy.
Hardcover. San Francisco, CA, John Howell-Books, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Limited to 5000 copies. 130 pages. 6 color illustrations. Color frontispiece. The original narrative, hitherto unpublished by Father Vicente Maria and further details by participants in the first explorations of the Bay's waters. Illustrations by Louis Choris in brush and pencil who was at San Francisco in 1816. Blue dust jacket with wear. Sun-fading to spine. Blue boards with gilt title to spine and front. Previous owner sticker on front flyleaf. Overall, a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, WW Norton & Co,, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. As World War II came to an end, General George Marshall was renowned as the architect of Allied victory. Set to retire, he instead accepted what he thought was a final mission-this time not to win a war, but to stop one. Across the Pacific, conflict between Chinese Nationalists and Communists threatened to suck in the United States and escalate into revolution. His assignment was to broker a peace, build a Chinese democracy, and prevent a Communist takeover, all while staving off World War III. In his thirteen months in China, Marshall journeyed across battle-scarred landscapes, grappled with Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, and plotted and argued with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his brilliant wife, often over card games or cocktails. The results at first seemed miraculous. But as they started to come apart, Marshall was faced with a wrenching choice. Its consequences would define the rest of his career, as the secretary of state who launched the Marshall Plan and set the standard for American leadership, and the shape of the Cold War and the US-China relationship for decades to come. It would also help spark one of the darkest turns in American civic life, as Marshall and the mission became a first prominent target of McCarthyism, and the question of "who lost China" roiled American politics. Remainder dot to top edge, otherwise like new.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth covers stamped in blue and red, 360 pages. 116 b&w photos throughout, color maps in rear. In 1898 America intervened in the Cuban War of Independence, leading to conflict with Spain. This is a detailed account of this campaign, together with American military sea and land operations on the island of Puerto Rico during the Spanish American War. Cloth spine darkened otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Chapel Hill NC, University of North Carolina Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with silver lettering, 384 pages, b&w illustrations. Say "New England" and you likely conjure up an image in the mind of your listener: the snowy woods or stone wall of a Robert Frost poem, perhaps, or that quintessential icon of the region--the idyllic white village. Such images remind us that, as Joseph Conforti notes, a region is not just a territory on the ground. It is also a place in the imagination. This ambitious work investigates New England as a cultural invention, tracing the region's changing identity across more than three centuries. Incorporating insights from history, literature, art, material culture, and geography, it shows how succeeding generations of New Englanders created and broadcast a powerful collective identity for their region through narratives about its past. Whether these stories were told in the writings of Frost or Harriet Beecher Stowe, enacted in historical pageants or at colonial revival museums, or conveyed in the pages of a geography textbook or Yankee magazine, New Englanders used them to sustain their identity, revising them as needed to respond to the shifting regional landscape. Clean copy. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1884, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth stamped in red and gilt, 320 pages. Frontispiece, b&w plates and illustrations. Folding map. Spine sunned, light wear to extremities, previous owner's name, inscription on inside front cover, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, The Overlook Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 358 pages, Illustrated with three sections of color plates. b&w maps, illustrations. Clean copy. A fascinating survey of the life and enduring legacy of perhaps the greatest and most unjustly ignored of the Roman emperors-written by a richly gifted historian.In 312 A.D., Constantine-one of four Roman emperors ruling a divided empire-marched on Rome to establish his control. On the eve of the battle, a cross appeared to him in the sky with an exhortation, "By this sign conquer." Inscribing the cross on the shields of his soldiers, Constantine drove his rivals into the Tiber and claimed the imperial capital for himself. Under Constantine, Christianity emerged from the shadows, its adherents no longer persecuted. Constantine united the western and eastern halves of the Roman Empire. He founded a new capital city, Constantinople. Thereafter the Christian Roman Empire endured in the East, while Rome itself fell to the barbarian hordes.
Softcover. Louisiana State University, reprint, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 654 pages with index. After more than half a century, Origins of the New South is still recognized both as a classic in regional historiography and as the most perceptive account yet written on the period which spawned the New South. Historian Sheldon Hackney recently summed it up this way: "The pyramid still stands. Origins of the New South has survived relatively untarnished through twenty years of productive scholarship, including the eras of consensus and of the new radicalism. . . . Woodward recognizes both the likelihood of failure and the necessity of struggle. It is this profound ambiguity which makes his work so interesting. Like the myth of Sisyphus, Origins of the New South still speaks to our condition." Light rubbing to wrappers, clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, American Book Company, Reprint, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 252 pages. Hardcover. Color (maps) and b/w illustrations throughout. Brown leather boards, black designs and gilt on spine and front cover board. Decorated edges.
Hardcover. Marceline, MO, Walsworth Publishing Company, 1st Edition, 1976, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 219 pages. Hardcover. B/w frontispiece and illustrations throughout including several fold-out maps. Spine straight. Binding tight. Foxing to edges, preliminary and back pages. Light blue cloth cover boards, some agewear, gilt title on spine. History of Andover, Massachusetts during the Revolutionary War.
Softcover. New Jersey, Bergen County Board, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 71 pages. Volume one of a seven volume set on the history and heritage of Bergen County. Clean, like new..
Softcover. Bowie MD, Heritage Books, reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Two softcover volumes, Vol. 1 and 2 complete, 835 total pages, b&w illustrations. Facsimile reprints of the 1910 Grafton Press original edition. Clean copies.
Softcover. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1st pbk, 1998, Book: Very Good, Softcover, 330 pages. Twelve literary scholars and historians investigate the ways in which space and place are politically, religiously, and culturally inflected. Exploring medieval texts as diverse as Icelandic sagas, Ptolemy's Geography, and Mandeville's Travels, the contributors illustrate the intimate connection between geographical conceptions and the mastery of land, the assertion of doctrine, and the performance of sexuality. Clean copy.
Softcover. Los Angeles, The Augustan Reprint Society , reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 31 pages. A facsimile reprint of the 1650 pamphlet by Dury, laying out a plan for the organization of books and libraries. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. Manchester University Press , 1st pbk, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 416 pages, b&w illustrations. During the Algerian War the French army engaged in the 'emancipation' of Muslim women as part of a strategy of subverting the nationalist movement whilst also inflicting widespread violence. First comprehensive study in English of the role of Muslim women during the Algerian war, bringing a unique interdisciplinary approach to the subject. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Atheneum, reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 314 pages. The roles of planter and slave in a changing plantation society in Brazil. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. Old Lyme CT, Lyme Historical Society, 1995, Book: Very Good, Softcover, 162 pages. Part of the Lyme Heritage Series: a series of essays about Hamburg Cove, Lyme, Connecticut, accompanied by photographs/paintings in b&w and color. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, David Mckay, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 329 pages. "This volume puts together as a continuous narrative the diary of Rutherford B. Hayes from March, 1875 to March 1881 - covering his nomination as the Republican candidate, the campaign of 1876, the disputed election and its compromise, and his Presidency. It is based on a typed copy of the original manuscript supplied by The Rutherford B. Hayes Library of Fremont, Ohio, and its director, Watt P. Marchman. Hayes was an inveterate diary keeper from his youth to his old age. In this record of the presidential years the diary is reproduced virtually in facsimile form. All misspellings, errors in punctuation, and other eccentricities have been retained, as have the deletions and gaps in the original copy." Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 3rd pr., 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. 411 pages; index; 24 illustrations, including color frontispiece of Abigail and John; from the Introduction: " 'The Book of Abigail and John' is a Bicentennial updating of Charles Francis Adams' contribution ('Familiar Letters') to the nation's Centennial. It contains what the present editors consider the best letters of John and Abigail Adams, written from their courtship beginning late in 1762 to their reunion in Europe in August 1784.To these letters have been added a number of letters to "third parties" and selected diary and autobiographical passages that reveal the two as man and woman, husband and wife, father and mother." Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. All about the motivation and planning for the Wars in Laos (1959-62), Vietnam (from 1954) and Cambodia. Peter Dale Scott examines the many ways in which war policy has been driven by "accidents" and other events in the field, in some cases despite moves toward peace that were directed by presidents. Name on front fly leaf, light rubbing to dj, otherwise clean.
Softcover. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts Boston , 1st, 1982, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 3 Softcover Volumes. Volume 1 - 94 pages. Features:Introduction/Migration and Settlement. Many illustrations in black & white and 8 pages in full color. Covers show light/moderate wear with some soiling to rear cover. Clean, tight copy. Volume 2 - 260 pages. Features: Mentality and Environment. Many illustrations in black & white and 8 pages in full color. Light/moderate wear. Clean, tight copy. Volume 3 - 209 pages. Features: Style. Many illustrations in black & white and 16 pages in full color. Light/moderate wear. Clean, tight copy. All 3 Volumes: Good+ condition.
Hardcover. London, England, Gret Western Railway, 1st edition, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 154 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrated frontispiece, color and b/w illustrations, including several fold out blueprint diagrams, throughout. Previous owner's ID stamp on front flyleaf. Red cover boards (some fading), black quarter cloth, gilt title on spine and front cover board. Pages unmarked, some light tanning from age. Binding good, spine straight. With additional chapter on "Monastic Life and Buildings" by A. Hamilton Thompson, M.A., D.LITT., F.S.A. Professor of Mediaeval History in the University of Leeds. With One Hundred Illustrations by Photographic Reproduction, fifty-six drawings, thirteen plans, seven color plates and map (in pocket on back endpapers).
Hardcover. San Marino,CA, The Huntington Library, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket, 161 pages. Official records from the Pinkerton detective agency & other documentary sources are drawn on to present the story of "a plot and counterplot, stranger than fiction" involving a plan to assassinate president-elect Abraham Lincoln while en route to his inauguration in Washington in 1861, over 4 years before he was killed by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, W.A. Leary & Co., 1853, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 588 pages w/ appendix. Brown leather w/ raised bands on spine, outlined in gilding. Spine cracking and worn. Edge wear. Colorful marbled end pages. Engraving of G. Washington pictured on frontispiece. Inscription in pencil on prelim page dated 1954. Blue design on top/bottom/sides of pages. Corners of boards have gilt design. B/W sketches throughout. Some tissue guards.
Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 228 pages. "The period from Andrew Jackson's presidency to the Civil War has traditionally been considered the age of democracy triumphant in the United States. This book sharply contradicts that assumption, contending that while democracy advanced substantially in the political sense, social and economic distinctions became, if anything, more marked. Powerful forces, especially in the economic field, were working toward the stratification of society." Name on the front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Boston, Charles E. Goodspeed, 1st, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 88 pages, hardcover. Edited by Charles Knowles Bolton. Correspondence during the American revolutionary war. Mild fading to spine and top edge. Mild rubbing and edgewear to boards as well. Rough cut top edge. Minor bumping to corners. Frontispiece intact. Unmarked. A bright and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 414 pages. Volume 1 ONLY. No dust jacket. Name on front fly leaf otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Boston, MA, Da Capo Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. Gilt title on spine. B/w illustrations throughout. In excellent condition, binding tight, clean and unmarked inside and out. Looks barely read.
Hardcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a price-clipped dust jacket, 160 pages. ".based on the Gino Speranza Lectures delivered in Columbia University by Broadus Mitchell as a part of the national celebration of the two-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Alexander Hamilton." Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Basic Books, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 566 pages. Song of Wrath tells the story of Classical Athens' victorious Ten Years' War (431-421 BC) against grim Sparta -- the first decade of the terrible Peloponnesian War that turned the Golden Age of Greece to lead. Historian J.E. Lendon presents a sweeping tale of pitched battles by land and sea, sieges, sacks, raids, and deeds of cruelty and guile -- along with courageous acts of mercy, surprising charity, austere restraint, and arrogant resistance. Recounting the rise of democratic Athens to great-power status, and the resulting fury of authoritarian Sparta, Greece's traditional leader, Lendon portrays the causes and strategy of the war as a duel over national honor, a series of acts of revenge. A story of new pride challenging old, Song of Wrath is the first work of Ancient Greek history for the post-cold-war generation. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 372 pages. The Boston Massacre, known as the Incident on King Street by the British, was an event on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers shot and killed people while under attack by a mob. The British soldiers were put on trial, found guilty of manslaughter and had their thumbs branded with an 'M' for murder as punishment. This book covers the action and the subsequent trial. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Boston, City of Boston, 1st, 1889, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 274 pages, b&w plates and illustrations. Brown end papers. Brown cloth coverings w/ gilt seal and lettering on spine. Wear and rubbing to covers, corners. Binding weak, several pages loose. Else pages clean and crisp.
Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 315 pages. The documents, speeches, letters and debates that were the genesis and evolution of American nationalism: Adams, Jefferson, Hamilton, Madison, Cooper, Clay, Breckinridge and others. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Two volume set. 575 pages, 63 b&w illustrations. Latrobe (1764-1820), English-born architect of the United States Capitol under Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe, set the course for a vast amount of nineteenth-century American architecture with such works as the Capitol, the Bank of Pennsylvania, and the Baltimore Cathedral. A pioneering engineer as well, he designed the nation"s first comprehensive steam-powered waterworks in Philadelphia. Latrobe combined his professional concerns with an astonishing range of other interests and an acutely ob- servant eye. His papers form one of the finest existing literary and pictorial descriptions of the young republic.
Softcover. UK, Antony Rowe, reprint, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 112 pages, b&w illustrations. 178 b/w photos. The great German assault on Verdun opened on 21 February 1916 and the battle went on with furious attacks and counterattacks till it finally petered out on 18 December, ten months later, some two and a half months longer than the British offensives of the Somme and Third Ypres combined. After describing the origins and conduct of the battle with maps and illustrations the book takes us on a tour of the town and of various parts of the battlefield with its numerous forts. Originally published in 1919 by Michelin. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 178 pages. A new perspective on the Supreme Court during the Reconstruction period. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Benjamin Warner, 1st thus, 1817, Book: Good, Hardcover, 477 pages. Lithographed portrait frontispiece of Hamilton, two other plates with portraits of Madison and Jay, all portraits have tissue overlays. NOTE: This copy has a 1817 date on the title page, and a total of 477 pages while other books listed are dated 1818 with 504 pages. So this is the first single-volume edition minus the Appendix which was added to the 1818 edition. This is an ex-lib from Columbia University, with several stamps and thie bookplate on inside front cover. The book has been rebound in brown buckram with gilt title on spine and call numbers at bottom. The frontispiece plate has a crease through the center and all 3 plates have light foxing and an embossed stamp. Overall Good Plus with about 12 pages having some light pencil marks in margins. Binding is solid. More pictures available on request.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 3rd pr., 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 370 pages with index. Photographs, illustrations, notes, index. "This is the story of how America's first women soldiers helped win World War I, earned the vote, and fought the U.S. Army. In 1918, the U.S. Army Signal Corps sent 223 women to France. They were masters of the latest technology: the telephone switchboard. General John Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary forces, demanded female 'wire experts' when he discovered that inexperienced doughboys were unable to keep him connected with troops under fire. Without communications for even an hour, the army would collapse". Clean copy.
Softcover. Wiltshire UK, Moho Books, reprint, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 283 pages, b&w photos. The British author was a young woman who parachuted into France in January 1944 in advance of the Allied invasion and spent seven months behind the lines. Photos, notes, bibliography, index. Foreword by Professor M. R. D. Foot and introduction and notes by David Hewson. Originally published in hardcover in 1946. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. Saranac Lake NY, Snowy Owl Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 360 pages, b&w illustrations. Ice has determined the course of Adirondack history in many surprising ways: from landscape to wildlife, harvesting to logging, barrel jumping to ice climbing and hail damage to ice storms. These accounts trace the history of that influence. The 360 page, soft cover book of personal stories, observations and over 200 photos, is the author's tribute to a fast disappearing era. Cover wrappers with mild wear, corner creases. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page.
Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. The Chronicles of America Vol. 51. 388 pages, b&w illustrations. Red gilt-decorated cloth, top edge gilt, no dust jacket as issued. A very nice, tight, clean copy in excellent condition.
Hardcover. Hartford CT, F.A. Brown, 1st, 1856, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth, covers embossed with floral designs in blind-stamp. Gilt medallion front cover, gilt lettering and Hale Monument on spine, 230 pages, errata page at conclusion. Gutter crack at page 60, but not bad, binding solid. Eight b&w plates with tissue guards. Previous owner's signature (dated 1856) on blank pelim page. A biography of the soldier in the Continental Army and member of Knowlton's Rangers, the first organized intelligence service organization of the United States of America. Hale spied on the British, and was captured and executed during a mission in New York City. His service earned him the title of state hero of Connecticut.
Hardcover. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 3rd pr., 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth with gilt lettering on spine. 439 pages, b&w illustrations with fold-out map of Polo's travels in rear. First published in 1931, this is the 1950 third printing. None of the manuscripts which have come down to us represents the original form of Marco Polo's narrative, but it is clear that certain texts are closer to the lost original than others. Entrusted with the task of preparing a new Italian edition of Marco Polo, Benedetto discovered many unknown manuscripts. He carefully edited the most famous of the manuscripts (the Geographic text) and collated it with the other best known ones. * An invaluable index has been added to Aldo Ricci's of Benedetto's text, which includes all the identifications made in the Geographic text and also later editions by Marsden (1818), Pauthier (1865) and Yule (1871). * The difficulty of following Polo on his many journeys has also been simplified by the process of distinguishing between those places on his main route to China and his return journey by sea to Persia and those places which he visited during his stay in China and those he never visited at all. Clean copy.