DU HALDE, Jean Baptiste (1674-1743). Description Géographique, Historique, Chronologique, Politique et Physique de l'Empire de la Chine. Paris: P.G. Le Mercier, 1735.
DU HALDE, Jean Baptiste (1674-1743). Description Géographique, Historique, Chronologique, Politique et Physique de l'Empire de la Chine. Paris: P.G. Le Mercier, 1735. 4 volumes, 2 o (435 x 292 mm). Titles printed in red and black, engraved title vignettes by M. Baquoy after A. Humblot, 4 engraved head-pieces after Humblot, 64 engraved plates, including 53 maps (23 folding, 17 double-page, 3 with contemporary outline-coloring) and 11 plates (9 double-page, one printed music) by Delahaye, Desbrulins, Fonbonne after Humblot, Lucas, Le Parmentier and others, engraved and woodcut initials, woodcut head-pieces. (Small repaired tear to large folding map in vol IV.) Contemporary mottled calf gilt, spine gilt in compartments, red and green morocco spine labels (minor splitting to some joints). FIRST EDITION OF DU HALDE'S "ENCYCLOPEDIC SURVEY OF CHINA" (Lust)-- and one of the earliest European sources on Chinese ceramics. Du Halde became a Jesuit in 1708 and was entrusted by his superiors with editing the published and manuscript accounts of Jesuit travellers in China. The present work records the accounts of twenty-seven of these (who are listed on volume I, pp. li-lii), and is notable for the "Relation succinte du voyage du capitaine Beering dans la Sibérie" (volume IV, pp.452-458), which details Bering's 1728 voyage through the eponymous straits; the double-page "Carte des pays traversees par le Capne. Beering depuis la ville de Tobolsk jusqu'á Kamtschatka" bound between pp.452 and 453 is based on Bering's manuscript map, which was given to the King of Poland and in turn was passed to Du Halde to be reproduced here. This is "THE FIRST PRINTED MAP OF PART OF PRESENT ALASKA" (S.I. Schwarz and R.E. Ehrenberg, The Mapping of America ). "This first French folio edition of 1735 is the most desirable and significant" (Lada-Mocarski). De Backer & Sommervogel IV:35; Brunet II:870; Cordier Sinica I, 45-48; Cox I:355; Lada-Mocarski 2; Lust Western Books on China 12; Wickersham 6099. (4)
DU HALDE, Jean Baptiste (1674-1743). Description Géographique, Historique, Chronologique, Politique et Physique de l'Empire de la Chine. Paris: P.G. Le Mercier, 1735.
DU HALDE, Jean Baptiste (1674-1743). Description Géographique, Historique, Chronologique, Politique et Physique de l'Empire de la Chine. Paris: P.G. Le Mercier, 1735. 4 volumes, 2 o (435 x 292 mm). Titles printed in red and black, engraved title vignettes by M. Baquoy after A. Humblot, 4 engraved head-pieces after Humblot, 64 engraved plates, including 53 maps (23 folding, 17 double-page, 3 with contemporary outline-coloring) and 11 plates (9 double-page, one printed music) by Delahaye, Desbrulins, Fonbonne after Humblot, Lucas, Le Parmentier and others, engraved and woodcut initials, woodcut head-pieces. (Small repaired tear to large folding map in vol IV.) Contemporary mottled calf gilt, spine gilt in compartments, red and green morocco spine labels (minor splitting to some joints). FIRST EDITION OF DU HALDE'S "ENCYCLOPEDIC SURVEY OF CHINA" (Lust)-- and one of the earliest European sources on Chinese ceramics. Du Halde became a Jesuit in 1708 and was entrusted by his superiors with editing the published and manuscript accounts of Jesuit travellers in China. The present work records the accounts of twenty-seven of these (who are listed on volume I, pp. li-lii), and is notable for the "Relation succinte du voyage du capitaine Beering dans la Sibérie" (volume IV, pp.452-458), which details Bering's 1728 voyage through the eponymous straits; the double-page "Carte des pays traversees par le Capne. Beering depuis la ville de Tobolsk jusqu'á Kamtschatka" bound between pp.452 and 453 is based on Bering's manuscript map, which was given to the King of Poland and in turn was passed to Du Halde to be reproduced here. This is "THE FIRST PRINTED MAP OF PART OF PRESENT ALASKA" (S.I. Schwarz and R.E. Ehrenberg, The Mapping of America ). "This first French folio edition of 1735 is the most desirable and significant" (Lada-Mocarski). De Backer & Sommervogel IV:35; Brunet II:870; Cordier Sinica I, 45-48; Cox I:355; Lada-Mocarski 2; Lust Western Books on China 12; Wickersham 6099. (4)
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