BONAPARTE (Roland). [Documents from the Mongol period of the - Lot 18

BONAPARTE (Roland). [Documents from the Mongol period of the 13th and 14th centuries. Inscriptions in six languages from the gate of Kiu-Yong Koan, near Peking. Letters, steles and coins in Uyghur and 'Phags-Pa scripts, the originals or engravings of which exist in France. Paris, Engraved and printed for the author, 1895]. Large folio, II-5 p. and 15 plates, publisher's green percaline, gilt title framed on first board, imperial eagle in corners and center of second board, laces (upper board soiled, 2 laces missing; title leaf lacking). First edition printed on Arches paper. Overview of the Kiu-yong Koan gate, bas-reliefs and inscriptions by Roland Bonaparte (1858-1924), geographer, ethnographer, botanist and photographer, president of the Société de géographie and the Institut international d'anthropologie. Numbered copy 485. (Cordier, Sinica, 683-684).