Mengwu’er shi ji 蒙兀兒史記 [History of the Mongols].
160 juan in 28 vols. 8vo, orig. blue wrappers, orig. block-printed title labels on upper covers, orig. stitching. [Wujin]: seals on verso of title “Jie yi huan” & “Piling Tu shi,” 1934.
First complete edition of this “monumental” (Woolf) history of the Mongols. Tu (1856-1921), was a “Chinese historian, specialist in frontier historical geography and Mongolian history. Although [he was] not a formal member of the New Text School, Tu Ji’s scholarship was imbued with the late Qing spirit of statecraft, which stressed the practical application of learning. His early works…were written at a time when China was rethinking its... More