China.- D'Anville (Jean Baptiste Bourgignon) Nouvel Atlas de la Chine, de la Tartarie Chinoise, et du Thibet, title page printed in red and black, 42 engraved maps, some double-page or folding, contemporary outline colour, some worming affecting text rather than maps, several maps repaired with loss reinstated with pen and ink, some browning and damp-stains, mainly to margins, contemporary red morocco, gilt, rubbed and worn, large folio measuring approx. 530 x 385 mm., The Hague, Henri Scheurleer, 1737. ⁂ The first scientific mapping of China, deriving from a triangulated survey carried out by French Jesuits, at the behest of the Emperor Kang Hsi. It forms the most important cartographic record of China from the eighteenth century.
China.- D'Anville (Jean Baptiste Bourgignon) Nouvel Atlas de la Chine, de la Tartarie Chinoise, et du Thibet, title page printed in red and black, 42 engraved maps, some double-page or folding, contemporary outline colour, some worming affecting text rather than maps, several maps repaired with loss reinstated with pen and ink, some browning and damp-stains, mainly to margins, contemporary red morocco, gilt, rubbed and worn, large folio measuring approx. 530 x 385 mm., The Hague, Henri Scheurleer, 1737. ⁂ The first scientific mapping of China, deriving from a triangulated survey carried out by French Jesuits, at the behest of the Emperor Kang Hsi. It forms the most important cartographic record of China from the eighteenth century.
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