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BICHURIN, Nikita Iakovlevich (Monk Iakinf). Opisanie Chzhun'garii [Description of Chungaria and eastern Turkestan in ancient and contemporary times, translated from the Chinese], St. Petersburg: Karl krai Press, 1829, 2 parts in one volume, 8°, PRESENTATION COPY inscribed by the translator to Paul Petrovich Makamovich, 4 hand-coloured engraved plates, final errata leaf (library stamp on a few leaves), later half calf [Obol'ianinov 1029] -- Istoria pervykh chetyrekh khanov [History of the first four Khans of the House of Chingis, translated from the Chinese], St. Petersburg: Karl Krai Press, 1829, 8°, folding engraved map hand-coloured in outline, final errata leaf (a few leaves slightly soiled, tear at foot of title), contemporary calf-backed boards (lightly rubbed) ex Library of Kasimov Gymnasium -- Istoriia Tibeta [History of Tibet and Khukhunor ... translated from the Chinese], St. Petersburg: Academy of Sciences, 1833, 2 volumes, 8°, lithographed title, folding engraved map hand-coloured in outline (slightly torn, some leaves lightly spotted, a few marginal tears), contemporary half calf (rubbed) -- Kitai [China, its social and moral situation], St. Petersburg: F.V. Bazunov, 1848, 4 volumes in one, 8°, folding lithographed plate (torn, title first index and 2 leaves of introduction in facsimile, some leaves lightly spotted, lower margins dampstained, title first index and 2 leaves of introduction in facsimile, upper margin cropped affecting pagination on some leaves), later calf-backed boards (rubbed). [Skachkov 698; 1197; 1199; 697] (5)