Author: Baddeley, John F.
Title: Russia, Mongolia, China. Being some record of the relations between them from the beginning of the XVIIth century to the death of the Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, A.D. 1602-1676, rendered mainly in the form of narratives dictated or written by the envoys sent by the Russian tsars, or their voevodas in Siberia to the Kalmuk and Mongol khans & princes, and to the emperors of China. With introductions, historical and geographical, also a series of maps, showing the progress of geographical knowledge in regard to northern Asia during the XVIth, XVIIth, & early XVIIIth centuries, the texts taken more especially from manuscripts in the Moscow Foreign office archives.
Description: [London, Macmillan, 1919]. Reprint New York, Burt Franklin, [1964]. 2 vols. 2 b./w. frontispieces, num. b./w. ills (incl. maps, partly on fold. plts), 6 loose (fold.) maps in rear pocket (2 coloured) & 6 loose genealogical tables in rear pocket. Orig. uniform hardcovers (green cloth, gilt klettered / dec. on the spines). - Some light shelfwear (light wear to top of spine & one corner of vol. I); owner's names on first free endpapers. (Burt Franklin research & source works series, no. 60). - Overall very good copies.Complete copy of this facsimile edition (all plates present !). - Originally published London, Macmillan, 1919. - - Copy from the library of the Dutch collector and specialist Wim van Spengen.

Keywords: Cartography Asia Ethnography Asia China Mongolia Russia Cartografie Azië Etnografie Azië Mongolië Rusland