DU HALDE (Jean-Baptiste)

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DU HALDE (Jean-Baptiste)
Geographical, historical, chronological, political, and physical description of the Chinese empire and Chinese Tartary. Paris, Le Mercier, 1735. 4 volumes in-folio, marbled calf, decorated back, pieces of fawn title and green tomaison, red slices (Binding of the time). Cordier, Sinica, col. 46-48. - De Backer-Sommervogel, t. IV, col. 35, n°11. Original edition of one of the best books on China and the surrounding regions, written by the Jesuit Jean-Baptiste du Halde (1674-1743) based on missionary stories and letters and translations of Chinese texts. Beautiful illustration engraved intaglio with 4 title vignettes, 5 head vignettes, 15 plates including several double-page ones (costumes, scenes of morals, animals, plants, city maps, portrait of Confucius, a music plate, etc.) and 50 maps, including a very large map of Chinese Tartary with the outline of borders and coasts in color. Among the maps are also a map of the Kingdom of Korea, a map of Tibet and Bhutan, and a folding map of the countries crossed in the first half of the 18th century by Captain Vitus Bering from Tobolsk to Kamchatka. The first volume contains among other things the Fastes of the Chinese monarchy, or Abbreviated History and in chronological order of what happened most remarkably under each emperor. Slight marginal wetness. Hinges partly split.
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