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DU HALDE, JEAN-BAPTISTE, S.J. Description Géographique, Historique, Chronologique, Politique, et Physique de l'Empire de la Chineet de la Tartarie Chinoise. 65 engraved plates and maps, all but 13 double-page or folding. [4], viii, lii, iii, [1], 592; [4], iv, 725, [1]; [4], iv, 564, [4]; [4], ii, 520 pages, including half-titles. 4 volumes. Folio, 437x285 mm, contemporary calf gilt, spines chipped, covers detached; varying toning or browning of text, scattered foxing minimally affecting some plates or maps, Volume 1 opening leaves loose with vertical crease in half-title, small ink stain in blank lower outer corners of pages 581-620 and bleach stains on pages 622-623 in Volume 2. 18th-century armorial bookplates of Sir James Dashwood of Northbrook, Bart. Paris: P. G. Le Mercier, 1735
first edition of the most comprehensive European work on China published to date, compiled from published and unpublished writings by French Jesuit missionaries. Pages [452]-458 in Volume 4 contain the first appearance of Vitus Bering's report and map of his expedition to northeast Asia and northwest America. Pages [459]-472 deal with the geography of Tibet, with 10 maps. Alden 735/87; Lada-Mocarski 2; Lust 12; Cordier (Sinica) 46-47; Streit-Dindinger VII, 284; Yakushi (1994) D338a.
