Mediaeval Researches from Eastern Asiatic Sources - Geography and History of Central and Western Asia from the 13th to the 17th Century

By Emil Bretschneider

Book Overview

An interesting specimen of mediaeval cartography, showing the geographical knowledge possessed by the Chinese (or rather Mongols), in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, of the countries west of China and Mongolia, has come down to us in the form of a rude map which has survived from a large work treating of the institutes of the Mongol empire and published in the first half of the fourteenth century. The title of this extensive work was King shi ta tien; but it seems that now only fragments of it exist. The library of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Peking was in former times in possession of a manuscript copy of one chapter of the work, containing an enumeration of the stations on the post-roads in China Proper and a part of Mongolia. This now belongs to the library of the Rumiantsoff Museum at Moscow. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1406713813
• ISBN13: 9781406713817
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: Hesperides Press
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"