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DU HALDE, JEAN-BAPTISTE, S.J. Description Géographique, Historique, Chronologique, Politique, et Physique de l'Empire de la Chine. 65 engraved plates and maps, all but 13 double-page or folding. [4], viii, lii, iii, [1], 592; [4], iv, 792; [4], iv, 564, [4]; [4], ii, 520 pages, including half-titles. 4 volumes. Folio, 424x275 mm, contemporary calf gilt, spine ends and cover edges worn, some lettering pieces off, Volume 4 joints partly cracked; occasional browning or foxing of text, engraved matter clean. Dayton Art Institute bookplates. Paris: P. G. Le Mercier, 1735
first edition of the most comprehensive European work on China published until then, compiled from published and unpublished writings by French Jesuit missionaries. Pages [452]-458 in Volume 4 contain the first appearance of Vitus Bering's account and map of his expedition to northeast Asia and northwest America, which Du Halde had obtained from the King of Poland. Alden 735/87; Lada-Mocarski 2; Lust 12; Cordier (Sinica) 46-47; Streit-Dindinger VII, 284.
