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DU HALDE, Jean-Baptiste, s. j. - Description géographique, h - Lot 358
DU HALDE, Jean-Baptiste, s. j. - Description géographique, historique, chronologique, politique et physique de l'empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie chinoise... The Hague, Henri Scheurleer, 1736. 4 vols. in-4, 51/53 h. t. plates engraved in intaglio, 19 of which are folded, the two large maps of China are missing, outer margins affected by moisture, sometimes heavily, contemporary granulated brown calf, spine ribbed and ornamented, some cuffs and corners worn, epidermis.
BRUNET II, 870. CORDIER 48. LUST 13. Second edition published one year after the original in-folio, which it virtually reproduces. This synthesis, based mainly on Jesuit sources, was to have a lasting influence on European views of China. Without the complementary atlas of maps by d'Anville. The first volume is devoted to geography and travel; the second deals with crafts, arts, language, finance and imperial orders; the third describes, among other things, Taoism, Buddhism, the spread of Christianity in China and Chinese medicine; the fourth contains travel accounts by Verbiest, Gerbillon, Golovin, Régis and Bering, etc.
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