Mémoires relatifs a l’Asie, de Klaproth (Paris, 1824) KLAPROTH, Heinrich Julius von.- Mémoires relatifs a l’Asie, contenant des recherches historiques, géographiques et philologiques sur les peuples de l’Orient.- Paris: Dondey-Dupré, 1824- 1828.- 3 vols.: il.; 20 cm.- E. Heinrich Julius von Klaproth (1783-1835), Orientalist historian, linguist, traveler and German explorer, born in Berlin, who, together with Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat, was one of those responsible for the institution of Asian studies in Western universities; in 1805, at the invitation of Count Potocki, Klaproth joined a Russian embassy sent to China, having subsequently taught at the St. Petersburg Academy, until he finally settled in Paris in 1815. Original edition of one of his most sought after works. The collation of each of the three volumes is as follows: I - [8], 478, [1, 1 br.] P .: III prints (2 unfolded), 1 unfolded map .; II - [8], 432, [3, 1 br.] P .: 1 prints, 2 tables, 2 unfolded maps .; III - [8], 520 p .: 2 unfolded maps, 5 prints. Apparently, volume II lacks a fold-out map next to p. 157 (the first print has the indication pl. II); in the same volume II, p. 320, a foldable map of the Jean Potocki Archipelago is identical (repeated) to that found in volume I, next to the same p. 320. Slightly trimmed copy (carmine edge), but clean, covered with contemporary bindings, whole flecked calf, with the initials MD (?) crowned on the upper section of the spines. Provenance: Roberto Gulbenkian Library.