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JEAN BAPTISE BOURGUIGNON D'ANVILLE (1697-1782)
Nouvel Atlas de la Chine, de la Tartarie Chinoise et du Thibet. The Hague: Henri Scheurleer, 1737. 2° (516 x 358mm). Title in red and black, 42 engraved maps, some double-page and folding. (Occasional light spotting and soiling.) Contemporary French mottled calf, spine gilt with morocco lettering-piece, blue sprinkled edges (rubbed).
THE FIRST ATLAS TO DEPICT TIBET. From an early age D'Anville immersed himself in geography and the study of maps. He engraved his first map at the age of 15, and soon became one of the most respected cartographers in France, appointed Geographer to the King in 1773. Although he never left Paris, he had access to the new Jesuit surveys carried out in 1708 for the Kangxi Emperor. His atlas of China, based on this information, was issued in Paris by Dezauche under the title Atlas general de la Chine, and by Scheurleer in The Hague, the latter issue having 42 as opposed to 50 maps. Cordier Sinica 48; cf. Lust 155.
Nouvel Atlas de la Chine, de la Tartarie Chinoise et du Thibet. The Hague: Henri Scheurleer, 1737. 2° (516 x 358mm). Title in red and black, 42 engraved maps, some double-page and folding. (Occasional light spotting and soiling.) Contemporary French mottled calf, spine gilt with morocco lettering-piece, blue sprinkled edges (rubbed).
THE FIRST ATLAS TO DEPICT TIBET. From an early age D'Anville immersed himself in geography and the study of maps. He engraved his first map at the age of 15, and soon became one of the most respected cartographers in France, appointed Geographer to the King in 1773. Although he never left Paris, he had access to the new Jesuit surveys carried out in 1708 for the Kangxi Emperor. His atlas of China, based on this information, was issued in Paris by Dezauche under the title Atlas general de la Chine, and by Scheurleer in The Hague, the latter issue having 42 as opposed to 50 maps. Cordier Sinica 48; cf. Lust 155.
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