Book shop

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Ezio standing by a Book Shop

Book Shops were suppliers of books and maps in the cities of Constantinople and Cappadocia during the early 16th century.

Available books

Constantinople

• The Odyssey by Homer
• Aeneid by Virgil
• Mu'allaqat
• Geography by Ptolemy
• The History of the Kings of Britain by Geoffrey of Monmouth
• Heimskringla by Snorri Sturluson
• The Book of Prophecies by Christopher Columbus
• The Golden Ass by Apeleius
• Parallel Lives by Plutarch
• Metamorphoses by Ovid
• Opus Majus by Roger Bacon
• The Secret History of the Mongols by Unknown
• Anabasis Alexandri by Arrian of Nicodemia
• Record of the Grand Historian by Sima Qian

Cappadocia

• Bibliotheca by Photius
• Cronica by Ramon Muntaner
• Tirant lo Blanch by Joanot Martorell
• Digenes Akritas by Unknown

Book quests

Main article: The Polo Symbols

After completing the memory "Signs and Symbols, Part I", Ezio Auditore found the following books scattered throughout Constantinople with his Eagle Sense.

• The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
• The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo
• One Thousand and One Nights by Unknown
• The Book of Kings by Ferdowsi
• Nibelungenlied by Unknown
• Iliad by Homer
• The Flute Girl by Menander

After finding and purchasing all the books, a cutscene involving bookshop owner Sofia Sartor and Ezio Auditore is unlocked at the Assassin hideout.

Maps

Maps revealing the locations of the treasure chests in Constantinople and Cappadocia can also be bought, as well as a map revealing the locations of Ishak Pasha's Memoir Pages.

Trivia

• Book Shops and books have replaced the functions of Art Merchants and paintings from Assassin's Creed II and Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood.
• Buying every book available from the Book Shops in Constantinople and Cappadocia, along with finding all the

  

  hidden books from Polo Memories, unlocks the "Sage" achievement/trophy.
  • The December 20 2011 patch introduced a bug that prevents the game from awarding Sage after collecting all the books. If a subsequent patch does not fix this bug, clear your cache before obtaining the last book.

Source

• Assassin's Creed: Revelations