[FIRST TRANSLATION OF THREE IMPORTANT CHINESE HISTORY BOOKS] Opisanie Chzhungarii i Vostochnogo Turkestana v drevnem i nyneshnem sostoyanii. Perevedeno s kitaiskago monakhom Iakinfom [i.e. Description of Dzungaria and Eastern Turkestan in its Ancient and Modern State. Translated from Chinese by Monk Iakinf].
St. Petersburg: Tip. Karla Kreya, 1829. xlvi, 90; [2], 91-270, [1] pp. 8vo. With four hand coloured lithographed plates. Both parts with period ink inscriptions on the title pages “E. bibl. Steph. Chotovitsky.” Graphite and occasional blue pencil markings and notes in text (in prerevolutionary Russian orthography). Contemporary half leather..... More