D’Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon NOUVEL ATLAS DE LA CHINE, DE LA TARTARIE CHINOISE, ET DU THIBET. THE HAGUE: H. SCHEURLEER 1737 Folio (550 x 420mm.), title (incorporating contents list) printed in red and black, and 42 engraved maps, the 3 general folding maps in contemporary outline colour, the remainder plain, re-guarded, recent half morocco, title repaired, title, preliminaries and folding maps shorter, some light marginal soiling D'Anville's atlas volume can be regarded as the second western atlas of China, following on from that of Martinus Martini (see previous lot), and the first scientific mapping of China, deriving from a triangulated survey carried out by French Jesuits, at the behest of the Emperor Kang Hsi, and forms the most important cartographic record of China from the eighteenth century.
D’Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon NOUVEL ATLAS DE LA CHINE, DE LA TARTARIE CHINOISE, ET DU THIBET. THE HAGUE: H. SCHEURLEER 1737 Folio (550 x 420mm.), title (incorporating contents list) printed in red and black, and 42 engraved maps, the 3 general folding maps in contemporary outline colour, the remainder plain, re-guarded, recent half morocco, title repaired, title, preliminaries and folding maps shorter, some light marginal soiling D'Anville's atlas volume can be regarded as the second western atlas of China, following on from that of Martinus Martini (see previous lot), and the first scientific mapping of China, deriving from a triangulated survey carried out by French Jesuits, at the behest of the Emperor Kang Hsi, and forms the most important cartographic record of China from the eighteenth century.
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