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Paperback or Softback. Condición: New. Description geographique, historique, chronologique, politique, et physique de l'empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie chinoise: Enrichie des cartes ge. Book.

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2 volumes, folio (17 1/4 x 10 1/2 in.; 43.8 x 26.7 cm). 64 engraved maps, plans, and plates (of which 40 folding) including the general map of China by D'Anville handcolored in outline, woodcut and engraved headpieces, woodcut and engraved historiated initials, several text illustrations, and a table of the I Ching; closed tear on I: 4C1 slightly affecting text, on bottom margin of I:4D2, marginal repair to 2:Fff1; light, occasional toning to text. Contemporary half calf over Dutch-combed marbled boards, green morocco lettering pieces; calf rather dry with minor losses to head of spine on vol. 1. Housed in linen folding cases. A FINE, UNCUT COPY IN THE SCARCE PUBLISHER'S BOARDS OF DU HALDE'S MONUMENTAL WORK ON CHINA, no copy in original boards has appeared at auction for more than 50 years. This, the second and most complete edition in English of Du Halde's encylopaedic survey is based on published and unpublished reports of 17 Jesuit missionaries (Du Halde himself never visited China). Nevertheless, it is regarded as "the first definitive European work on the Chinese empire" (Hill), dealing with China's history, monarchies, moral philosophy, culture, arts, medicine, and sciences. First published in French in 1735, the first English edition appeared the following year. The present edition was augmented with maps from Jesuit surveys carried out between 1708 and 1718 for the Emperor Kangxi. They represented an immense improvement on existing knowledge, including any on Mongolia and Tibet, and are considered by Tooley to be "the principal cartographic authority on China during the eighteenth century." The large general map of China incorporates Bowen's corrections of d'Anville's longitudinal markings. Also included is the first separate map of Korea, together with a previously unpublished account of that country by Jean-Baptiste Régis (d. 1738). The work is also notable for an account of Bering's 1725-1728 voyage off eastern Siberia through the eponymous straits. The folding "Map of Capt. Beering's Travels from Tobolskoy to Kamtshatka," which shows the earliest printed portion of Alaska (St. Lawrence Island), is based on the manuscript map which he gave to the King of Poland before it was passed to Du Halde. Other plates depict costume, scenes from court life, and other subjects, which most likely fueled the European vogue for "chinoiserie." A cornerstone for any collection of books on China. Catalogued by Elizabeth Muller, formerly a senior specialist with more than two decades of experience at Sotheby's. (L64F22F) REFERENCES: Cordier, Sinica 50; Cox I, 355; De Backer & Sommervogel IV, 37; Hill 498 (3rd English); Lada-Mocarski 2; Löwendahl 394 ("Bible of European Sinophlia"; Lust, Western Books on China 15; Tooley, Maps and Mapmakers, p. 107 PROVENANCE: Richard Dodge (contemporary inscription on front free endpaper in volume 1) (L64F22F).

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. "4 volumes, 4to (10 x 7 4/8 inches)). Title-pages printed in red and black with engraved publisher's devices, FINE engraved folding map of Canton, 52 engraved plates (some folding), including a number of city plans, 5 engraved vignette head-pieces, 6 diagrams in the text, many by J. C. Philips after A. Humblot, others by Humblot after J. van de Spyk, one by Philippe van Gunst, most unsigned, woodcut head- and tailpieces and woodcut initials throughout. Modern calf backed marbled paper boards antique. Provenance: with the small bookplate of "Knowlton" on the front paste-down of each volume. "The first definitive European work on the Chinese empire" (Hill). First quarto edition, with a new preface and bibliography, first published in Paris the previous year in a folio edition. The illustrations are reduced versions of the plates of the first edition (some of which were woodcut) and fine engravings of Chinese life including city plans, ceremonies, artisans at work, costumes, etc. The maps were published separately by Bourguignon d'Anville in 1737, also reprinting the contents of the1735 edition. Du Halde became a Jesuit in 1708, and was commissioned by his superiors to bring together the published and manuscript accounts of Jesuit travelers in China. He first began by editing much of the comprehensive "Lettres édifiantes et curieuses écrites des missions étrangères" (1702-1776), one of the most important sources for Jesuit missionary activities in the 18th century. His later "Le Description" includes reports of 27 Jesuit missionaries, all listed in the preface, and covers every aspect of Chinese life and culture. The first printed account of Vitus Bering's first expedition to Alaska in 1725-1728, is included in volume four: "The original report traveled a circuitous route to fall into Du Halde's hands. The Danish Vitus Bering (1681-1741) had entered the Russian navy as a young man and risen through the ranks. His expedition was sponsored by the Russian Czar Peter the Great. When Bering returned to St. Petersburg in 1730, five years after the death of Peter the Great, his account and an accompanying map were sent as a gift to the King of Poland, who gave them to Du Halde with permission to do with them "as he saw fit". In this way the first account of Bering's important exploration was published in France rather than in Russia, where the full narrative was not published until several years later" (Hill). Brunet II, 870; Cordier "Sinica", p. 48; Hill 498. Catalogued by Kate Hunter".

Condición: Good. Original engraving. Tear in lower margin without loss of text. 35 x 23cm. from "Description geographique, historique, chronologique, politique, et physique de l'empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie Chinoise".Kong-Fù-Tsë or Confucius: the most Celebrated Philosopher of China", an illustration from The History of China, an English translation of Du Halde's 1735 French Description of China, whose engraver based his image on that found in the 1687 Latin translation of the Analects. The English image is a mirror version of the French one.In 1685, seeking to capitalize on failing relations between China and the Portuguese (i.e. papal) missionaries over the rites controversy, Louis XIV sent six French Jesuits to China as scientific emissaries. These early French missionaries would launch incredible interest in France for all things related to China.In 1735, Jesuit priest and historian Jean Baptiste Du Halde was given the monumental task of collating and editing the published and manuscript accounts of Jesuit travelers in China into a single work. Du Halde prominently cites the names of twenty-seven missionaries who served as his primary sources, including Martini, Verbiest, Bouvet, Gerbillon and others. The range of the work is impressive. Not only does Du Halde cover the geography, history, culture and religion of China proper, but geographically he extends the coverage of the work to include neighboring countries.The important maps within Du Halde's work are by Royal geographer Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville. Based on surveys conducted by French Jesuits at the behest of the Emperor Kang Hsiand, the work constitutes the first scientific mapping of China and forms the most important cartographic record of the region from the eighteenth century. The work also contains the first separate printed map of Korea and the first detailed survey of Tibet.The first volume of Du Halde's history comprises a general description of China, describing each province as well as each historical dynasty; the second volume encompasses government, law, commerce, art, literature, etc.; the third volume treats religion and science; the final volume expands the work to include neighboring regions (Mongolia, Tibet, Korea, etc,) and with accounts of late 17th century expeditions.Within the final volume (pp.452-458), although not listed in the Contents, appears "Relation succinte du voyage du capitaine Beering dans la Siberie"---the first published account of Bering's first expedition through the straits that now bear his name. The text is accompanied by an attractive map, titled "Carte des pays traversees par le Capne. Beering depuis la ville de Tobolsk jusqu' Kamtschatka," considered the first printed map of any portion of present-day Alaska (i.e. St. Lawrence Island).Lada-Mocarski writes: "The first French folio edition of 1735 is the most desirable and significant. Its importance lies in the Relation succinct . which is, in abbreviated form, Bering's report of his first expedition. It had not been published previously and the history of its getting into Du Halde's hands is interesting. On Bering's return to St. Petersburg in March 1730 he brought with him a brief report accompanied by a map. This map (and presumably the report) was sent to the King of Poland as a suitable present. The Polish King, in turn, gave the documents to the Jesuit Du Halde with permission to use them as he saw fit. Thus, the first printed report of Bering's 1725-28 expedition burst upon the world in the French work herein described. It was not until much later that a more complete narrative of this historical event was published in Russia.".LITERATURE:De Backer & Sommervogel IV:35; Brunet II:870; Cordier I:45-8; Cox I:355; Lust 12; Lada-Mocarski 2; Wickersham 6099; Lowendahl 394.

London : T. Gardner for Edward Cave, 1738-41. First complete English edition. Two volumes, folio, contemporary full calf ruled in gilt, expertly rebacked preserving the original labels; spines with raised bands and gilt rule; vol. 1 frontispiece portrait of Confucius, pp [4], xii, [1], xii, 678; vol. 2 pp [4], 388, [8]; with 51 engraved maps and plans (42 folding; map of China miscreased) and 13 plates; originally the personal copy of Thomas Percy (1729-1811), clergyman at Easton Maudit, Northamptonshire, later Bishop of Dromore, presented to him by the bookseller and writer Robert Dodsley (1704-1764), and inscribed on the front free-endpaper of the first volume "The Gift of Mr. Dodsley to Th. Percy"; bound in at the rear of the second volume is Percy's own 8-page manuscript index, with a note at the foot, dated at Easton Maudit, 1762, expressing his frustration at the inadequacy of the error-riddled printed index; both pastedowns with the engraved armorial bookplate of Du Pre Alexander, second Earl of Caledon (1777-1839), politician and colonial administrator, and his blind library stamps on the title pages; [accompanied by] a signed autograph letter by Jean Baptiste Du Halde, dated 11 October 1729; [1] page, small quarto, with attached blank leaf; addressed to an unnamed correspondent; in the note, Du Halde mentions a gift and apologises for not being able to present it in person. The French Jesuit geographer and historian Du Halde's encyclopaedic work on China is considered the most comprehensive of any printed in Europe in the eighteenth century. Its scope covers Chinese religion and customs, language, science and medicine, political institutions and antiquities. In the opinion of Tooley, the maps which appeared for the first time in this English edition - drawn by d'Anville from recent surveys by Jesuit missionaries in China and engraved by Emanuel Bowen - constitute "the principal cartographic authority on China during the 18th century." The work also contains the first published separate map of Korea, accompanied by an account of Korea byJean-Baptiste Régis. The translation (possibly by William Guthrie, according toLöwendahl) contributed significantly to the standardisation of Chinese orthography in English. A much shorter earlier English edition, with only 15 plates and 4 maps, was published in 1736. Cordier, Sinica, 50; Lust, 15;Löwendahl, 409.

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LeatheBound. Condición: New. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1741 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 492 Language: English Volume v.4 Pages: 492 Volume v.4.

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