Буддизм в Тибете и Монголии: лекция профессора Б. Я. Владимирцова читанная 31 сентября 1919 года = [Buddizm v Tibete i Mongoli :lekt︠s︡ii︠a︡ professora B. I︠A︡. Vladimirt︠s︡ova chitannai︠a︡ 31 senti︠a︡bri︠a︡ 1919 goda] = [Buddhism in Tibet and Mongolia]

Peterburg: Otdel po delam Muzeev i okhrane pami︠a︡tnikov Iskusstva i Stariny, 1919. First edition 16mo (approx. 5½" x 4¼"), pp. 52; later full red cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine; some toning of the text block, but still very good and sound. From the library of Angus I. Ward (1893-1969), sinologist and diplomat who famously stood up to Mao Zedong in 1948 and was deported in 1949. His bookplate is on the front pastedown. Boris Vladimirtsov (1884-1931) was a Russian linguist. "In 1909 he graduated from the Faculty of Oriental Languages ​​of St. Petersburg University, and trained in France at the A. Meye. From 1918 he taught at Petrograd (truncated) (Leningrad) University, and became a professor in 1921 and academician in 1929. He participated in expeditions to Mongolia. He was one of the first who used methods of contemporary linguistics, both in the field of comparative historical research, as well as in the description of Modern Languages​​. His main linguistic work 'Comparative Grammar' of the Mongolian written language and the Khalkha dialect (1929, 2nd ed. 1989) including a genetic classification of the Mongolian languages ​​and dialects. A sketch of their history and description of the phonetics and writing. He was the author of works on the history of the Mongolian Peoples: Genghis Khan (1922) The social system of the Mongols, and Mongolian nomadic feudalism (1934)" (findagrave[dot]com). OCLC finds NY Public, Chapel Hill, Western Washington University, Hawaii, National Diet Library, and Cambridge only. (Inventory #: 67599)