78/ 924 [Asia]. Cordier, H. Les voyages en Asie au XIVe siècle du bienheureux frère Odoric de Pordenone. Ed. H. Cordier. Paris, E. Ledoux, 1891, (6),XIV,CLVIII,602p., fold. col. lithogr. map, (double-p.) (tinted) plates and ills., later gilt green hmor. by SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE, orig. wr. pres., t.e.g.

= Attractive edition of the travels of the Italian Franciscan missionary Odoric (±1315-1330). He was the first European to visit Borneo and Lhasa (Tibet). His route to the India went via Constantinople, Trebizond, Persepolis and Hormuz. After that he travelled to China and Vietnam. A rare work in an attractive binding.