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TU Li-Shen (1667-1740). Puteshestvie kitaiskago poslannika k kalmytskomy Aiuke Khanu [The Journey of the Chinese Ambassador to the Kalmyk Aiuk Khan with a description of the land and customs of the Russians. Translated from Manchu into Russian ... by Aleksei Leontiev]. St. Petersburg: by the Imperial Academy of Sciences [at the expense of Her Imperial Majesty's Cabinet], 1782.
8° (185 x 115mm.). Final errata leaf (very slight waterstains on a few pages). Contemporary calf-backed boards, gilt ornaments on spine (slightly faded). FIRST EDITION. One of 600 copies printed. Svodnyi katalog 7391; Skachkov 5025; Sopikov/Rogozhin 13127.
8° (185 x 115mm.). Final errata leaf (very slight waterstains on a few pages). Contemporary calf-backed boards, gilt ornaments on spine (slightly faded). FIRST EDITION. One of 600 copies printed. Svodnyi katalog 7391; Skachkov 5025; Sopikov/Rogozhin 13127.