Pegolotti F.: “La pratica della Mercatura.” Cambridge 1936/ New York 1970 First and only edition, second issue. In 4to 24x16cm, Publisher’s cloth, text clean, complete 443p.,overall very good. Fransesco Pegolotti (1290-1347) was a Florentine merchant and politician. He traveled in the Levant for many years for businesses. He was in Cyprus from 1324 to 1327 and again in 1335 when he negotiated a reduction of tariffs, in 1335 also he obtained for the Armenian King of Cilicia commercial privileges. He toured Greece and Anatolia those years visiting several places. Between 1335 and 1343 he compiled this work for which is famous, the book of Descriptions of Countries and Measures employed in Business, commonly known as the Practice of Commerce. The Pratica della Mercatura describes all the major trading cities of the Levant in 14th century in details, the imports and exports of several regions, the business customs prevailed on those regions and many trade itineraries. A very detailed itinerary goes from Ayas in Cilicia via Sebastia (Sivas) to Erzerum, Tabriz and Trebisond. Unique medieval travel account with precious information for Medieval Greece and Anatolia, describing in astonishing details the visited areas (even the shape of the borders of the Empire of Trebisond). It had been first published in Cambridge University in 1936 and as this scientific printing became rare, it has been reissued in New York.