75 967 China Timkovski E F
75/ 967 [China]. Timkovski, (E.F.). Voyage à Péking, à travers la Mongolie, en 1820 et 1821. Ed. J.H. Klaproth. Atlas. Paris, Dondey-Dupré père et fils, 1827, 32p., lithogr. title, fold. map, 2 double-p. plans, 8 plates, orig. wr., folio.

- The atlas only, without the 2 text vols.; partly waterst. in lower blank margin (incl. some of the plates); first and final blanks affected by silverfish; trifle foxed. Wr. sl. frayed.

= Cordier p.2473; Lust 551. Egor Fyodorovitch Timkovski was a Russian diplomat who accompanied the Russian Orthodox mission to Beijing. Contains i.a. the earliest plan of the Forbidden City ever published in the West.

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