TIMKOWSKI, Egor Fedorovitch (1790-1975). Travels of the Russian Mission through Mongolia to China, London,1827, 2 volumes, 8vo, frontispiece, folding map, plan of Peking, old half calf. FIRST U.K. EDITION. With 2 other related works in 3 vols. (5)

TIMKOWSKI, Egor Fedorovitch (1790-1975).  Travels of the Russian Mission through Mongolia to China, and Residence in Peking, in the Years 1820-1821 ... With Corrections and Notes by Julius Klaproth, translated by H. E. Lloyd. London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1827. 2 volumes, 8vo (214 x 135mm). Lithographed frontispiece, large folding "Map of the Route from Kiakhta to Peking, through Mongolia", folding plan of Peking. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, spines gilt with black morocco lettering-pieces (heavily rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: "Ministry of Defence. Withdrawn" (stamps on front free endpapers, title, map of Peking and at margin of one text leaf; library labels at foot of spines with library numbers written in white ink on corner of upper covers). FIRST U.K. EDITION. Brunet IV, 483; Löwendahl 859; Lust 550. With 2 other related works in 3 vols., namely Frederick E. Forbes' Five Years in China; from 1842 to 1847. With an Account of the Occupation of the Islands of Labuan and Borneo by Her Majesty's Forces (London, 1848, 8vo, fine coloured lithographed frontispiece of "The Empress of China", illustrations, original mustard yellow cloth, FIRST EDITION, ex-library copy, with the same provenance and similar related condition issues as with the first named item) and Sven Hedin's Trans-Himalaya. Discoveries and Adventures in Tibet (London, 1909, 2 vols., plates, attractively-bound in contemporary blue full prize calf gilt, FIRST EDITION). Provenance: From the Collection of the late Seymour Stein (1942-2023). (5)