Voyage peking travers mongolie 1820 par timkowski (2 résultats)

2 vol. in-8 brochés de 4 ff.n.ch. XII 480 pp. et 2 ff.n.ch. 459 pp. et un atlas in-4 de 1 f.n.ch. (titre) 32 pp. et planches, couverture imprimée (défraichie avec manque de papier au dos de l'atlas). Première édition française (Cordier : Bibliotheca Sinica IV, 2473-74 - Chadenat, 3874). Ouvrage agrémenté d'un atlas, comprenant un titre gravé, une grande carte repliée de l'itinéraire, de 2 plans lithographiés (Peking et de l'ambassade russe) et 8 planches gravées, représentant Types, costumes et scènes locales. Bon exemplaire malgré des rousseurs.…

2 text volumes (8vo) and one atlas volume (folio). First French edition of Timkowski's account of his mission to Beijing via Mongolia (1820-1821), revised by J.B. Eyriès and corrected and annotated by the distinguished sinologist Heinrich Julius Klaproth. The narrative elaborates on the country of the Kalkas, the desert of Gobi, the territory of the Sounite Mongols, Beijing, dress and laws of the Chinese, conversations with Catholic Missionaries, Turkestan, Little Bucharia, the country of the Soungarians, Tibet, the Chinese army, the manners and customs of the inhabitants, the geography and ethnography of Mongolia and the country of the Tsakhars. It includes a plan of Beijing. Fine set.l Cordier, Sinica 2473-2474; Löwendahl 853; Lust 551. Text vols: contemporary half calf with marbled boards and red gilt title labels on spines, yellow edges, in slipcase. Atlas vol. with original brown wrappers, in slipcase. Atlas volume with lithographed title, 3 lithographed maps and plans (of which one large folding map of China and Mongolia (49.5 x 63 cm) with an itinerary from Kiakhta to Beijing through the Gobi desert, one double-page plan of the Forbidden City in Peking, and a double-page plan of the building of the Russian embassy), and 8 lithographed plates with copies after Chinese and other drawings with Chinese in costumes, Chinese women playing musical instruments, etc. Pages: [8], XII, 480; [4], 459; 32 pp.…