From Futaki Hiroshi's preface (pp. vii–viii), we learn about the collection of Mongol manuscripts, xylographs, and maps kept in the library of the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, which includes such rare sources as a map of 1805 showing the territory of Khalkha and a number of documents defining the boundaries of administrative units. Two studies, Kamimura Akira's preliminary analysis of fifteen premodern, hand-painted, and handwritten Mongol maps and one Sino-Manchu sketch (pp. 1–26), and Futaki's description of twenty-nine boundary reports (nutu-unêsê) from northern Mongolia of the 1920s (pp. 27–59), introduce the partly colored, partly black-and-white reproductions of the maps (pp. 61–97), the monochrome facsimiles of a selection of documents (pp. 99–152), and two indices (one by location, the other alphabetical) of more than 1,700 Mongol toponyms and other legends found on the maps. (An index of personal names would also be useful for onomastics.)...

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