Asia -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800; Mongols -- History; Polo, Marco, 1254-1323?; Voyages and travels
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42. Coin of King HETUM I. and Queen ISABEL of Cilician Armenia.
From an original in the British Museum. Engraved by ADENEY.
48. Castle of BAIBURT. After _Texier, L’Arménie_, Pl. 3.
51. Mediæval GEORGIAN FORTRESS. From a drawing by Padre CRISTOFORO
DI CASTELLI of the Theatine Mission, made in 1634, and now in
the Communal Library at Palermo. The name of the place has
been eaten away, and I have not yet been able to ascertain it.
55. View of DERBEND. After a cut from a drawing by M. Moynet in the
_Tour du Monde_, vol. i.
61. Coin of BADRUDDÍN LOLO of Mosul (A.H. 620). After _Marsden’s
Numismata Orientalia_, No. 164. By ADENEY.
76. GHÁZÁN Khan’s Mosque at TABRIZ. Borrowed from _Fergusson’s
History of Architecture._
95. KASHMIR SCARF with animals, etc. After photograph from the
scarf in the Indian Museum.
100. Humped Oxen from the Assyrian Sculptures at Kouyunjik. From
_Rawlinson’s Ancient Monarchies._
102. Portrait of a Hazára. From a Photograph, kindly taken for the
purpose, by M.-Gen. _C. P. Keyes_, C.B., Commanding the
Panjáb Frontier Force.
116– Illustrations of the use of the DOUBLE RUDDER in the Middle
118. Ages. 7 figures, viz., No. 1, The Navicella of Giotto in
the Porch of St. Peter’s. From _Eastlake’s H. of Painting_;
Nos. 2 and 3, from _Pertz, Scriptores_, tom. xviii. after
a Genoese Chronicle; No. 4, Sketch from fresco of Spinello
Aretini at Siena; No. 5, Seal of Port of Winchelsea, from
_Sussex Archæological Collections_, vol. i. 1848; No. 6,
Sculpture on Leaning Tower at Pisa, after _Jal, Archéologie
Navale_; No. 7, from the Monument of Peter Martyr, the
persecutor of the Lombard _Patarini_, in the Church of St.
Eustorgius at Milan, after _Le Tombe ed i Monumenti Illustri
d’Italia_, Mil. 1822–23.
134. The _ARBRE SEC_, and _ARBRES DU SOLEIL ET DE LA LUNE_. From
a miniature in the Prose Romance of Alexander, in the Brit.
Museum MS. called the _Shrewsbury Book_ (Reg. xv. e. 6).
137. The CHINÁR or Oriental Plane, viz., that called the Tree of
Godfrey of Boulogne at Buyukdéré, near Constantinople.
Borrowed from _Le Monde Végétal_ of Figuier.
147. Portrait of H. H. AGHA KHÁN MEHELÁTI, late representative of
the OLD MAN of the MOUNTAIN. From a photograph by Messrs.
SHEPHERD and BOURNE.
159. Ancient SILVER PATERA of debased Greek Art, formerly in the
possession of the Princes of BADAKHSHAN, now in the India
Museum.
167. Ancient BUDDHIST Temple at Pandrethan in KÁSHMIR. Borrowed from
_Fergusson’s History of Architecture_.
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