Moskva [Moscow], Akad. Nauk SSSR Institut Etnografii 1950-1953 3 vols.: lxxxviii,380 + 333 + 326pp. + portrait, maps (of which some folding) and facsimiles, 23cm., cloth, G, text in Russian, [Bichurin of Beijing, monastic name: Iankinf, 1777-1853, was the ninth leader of the Russian Orthodox Mission to Beijing and one of the founding fathers of sinology; this collection of information about the peoples inhabiting Central Asia in Ancient Times - i.e. Central Asia, South Siberia, Manchuria, Corea, Japan, Middle Asia and Eastern Turkestan - is the result of his travels through Asia as a missiologist and scholar], OCLC 417573879, X72530