Mongolia.- Pallas (Peter Simon) Sammlungen Historischer Nachrichten uber die Mongolischen Volkerschaften, part 1 only (of 2), first edition, 8 folding engraved plates, 5 folding letterpress genealogical tables, A1-3 creased at head, occasional spotting, lightly browned, ?contemporary marbled boards, spine and extremities worn, but solid, 4to, St. Petersburg, Academy of Sciences, 1776. sold not subject to return.
⁂ Pallas went to Russia in 1776 at the request of the Imperial Academy of Sciences. He embarked on a tour of the Russian provinces to research their natural history, peoples, languages and economy. He spent a winter with the Kalmycks on the Volga before travelling across central Asia to Russio-Siberia.
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