The PIAZZETTA at VENICE in the 14th century.  From a portion of the Frontispiece Miniature of the MS. of Marco Polo in the Bodleian. (Borrowed from the National Miscellany, published by J. H. Parker, Oxford, for 1853-55; and see Street’s Brick and Marble, etc., 1855, pp. 150-151.) [See vol. ii. p. 529.]

Three extracts from MAPS of VENICE, showing the site of the CA’ POLO at three different periods, (1) From the great woodcut Map or View of Venice, dated 1500, and commonly called Albert Duerer’s. (2) From a Plan by Cav.  Ludovico Ughi, 1729. (3) From the Modern Official Plan of the City.

Diagram of arrangement of oars in galleys.

Extract from a fresco by SPINELLO ARETINI, in the Municipal Palace at Siena, representing a GALLEY FIGHT (perhaps imaginary) between the Venetians and the fleet of the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, and illustrating the arrangements of mediaeval galleys.  Drawn from a very dim and imperfect photograph, after personal study of the original, by the Editor.

Extract from a picture by DOMENICO TINTORETTO in the Ducal Palace at Venice, representing the same GALLEY-FIGHT.  After an engraving in the Theatrum Venetum.

MARCO POLO’S GALLEY going into action at CURZOLA.  Drawn by Signor Q. CENNI, from a design by the Editor.

Map to illustrate the SEA-FIGHT at CURZOLA, where Marco Polo was taken prisoner.

SEAL of the PISAN PRISONERS in Genoa, after the battle of Meloria (1284).  From Manni, Osservazioni Storiche sopra Sigilli Antichi, tom. xii.  Engraved by T. ADENEY.

The Convent and CHURCH of S. LORENZO, the burial-place of Marco Polo, as it existed in the 15th century.  From the Map of 1500 (see above).  Engraved by the same.

Arms of the TREVISAN family, according to Priuli.

TAILED STAR near the Antarctic, as Marco Polo drew it for Pietro d’Abano. 
From the Conciliator of Pietro d’Abano.

PROLOGUE.

Remains of the Castle of SOLDAIA or Sudak.  After Dubois de Montpereux,
Voyage autour du Caucase, Atlas, 3d s.  Pl. 64.

Ruins of BOLGHAR.  After Demidoff, Voyage dans la Russie Meridionale, Pl. 75.

The GREAT KAAN delivering a GOLDEN TABLET to the two elder Polos.  From a miniature in the Livre des Merveilles du Monde (Fr. 2810) in the Library at Paris, fol. 3 verso.

Castle of AYAS.  After Langlois, Voyage en Cilicie.

Plan of ACRE as it was when lost (A.D. 1291).  Reduced and translated from the contemporary plan in the Secreta Fidelium Crucis of Marino Sanudo the Elder, engraved in Bongars, Gesta Dei per Francos, vol. ii.

Portrait of Pope GREGORY X. After J.  B. de Cavaleriis Pontificum Romanorum Effigies, etc.  Romae, 1580.

Ancient CHINESE WAR VESSEL.  From the Chinese Encyclopaedia called San-Thsai-Thou-Hoei, in the Paris Library.