See First Series 36 for the first volume, with which this has a continuous pagination. Contains contemporary notices of Cathay under the Mongols, from Rashiduddin; Pegolotti''s notices of the land route to Cathay and of Asiatic trade in the fourteenth century; Marignolli''s recollections of eastern travel; Ibn Battuta''s travels in Bengal and China; the journey of Benedict Go¿from Agra to Cathay; all in English translation, with Latin and Italian texts of Odoric''s narrative. For a revised version of the whole work, see Second Series 33, 37, 38, 41. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1866.