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D'ANVILLE, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon (1697-1782). Nouvel Atlas de la Chine, de la Tartarie Chinoise et du Thibet. The Hague: Henri Scheurleer, 1737.
2° (528 x 384mm). Title in red and black, 42 engraved maps, 12 double-page or folding, 3 hand-coloured in outline. (Title repaired along inner and slightly soiled at outer margin, general map of Tibet with small repair on verso of lower margin.) Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt with morocco lettering-piece, red sprinkled edges (rubbed). Provenance: Bibliothèque d’Hauteville (label and bookplate).
THE FIRST AUTHORITATIVE WESTERN ATLAS OF CHINA. Jean-Baptiste du Halde’s 4-volume work on L’empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie Chinoise had appeared in 1735, with 41 maps of the Chinese provinces, Tartary, Tibet and Korea. As Du Halde states in the preface, these maps were adaptations of Chinese originals produced for the Emperor and in co-operation with Jesuit missionaries. The adaptations were brilliantly executed by D’Anville, the royal geographer, who had also created four entirely new general maps. A separate atlas was issued in 1737, both in Paris by Dezauche under the title Atlas general de la Chine, and by Scheurleer (as above), the former containing 50 and the latter 42 maps. Besides depicting China in unprecedented detail, this was the first Western atlas to show Tibet and a separate Korea. Cordier Sinica 48; cf. Mario Cams ‘The China Maps of Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d’Anville’ in Imago Mundi (2013, vol. 66 pt. 1: 51-69); cf. Lust 155.
2° (528 x 384mm). Title in red and black, 42 engraved maps, 12 double-page or folding, 3 hand-coloured in outline. (Title repaired along inner and slightly soiled at outer margin, general map of Tibet with small repair on verso of lower margin.) Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt with morocco lettering-piece, red sprinkled edges (rubbed). Provenance: Bibliothèque d’Hauteville (label and bookplate).
THE FIRST AUTHORITATIVE WESTERN ATLAS OF CHINA. Jean-Baptiste du Halde’s 4-volume work on L’empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie Chinoise had appeared in 1735, with 41 maps of the Chinese provinces, Tartary, Tibet and Korea. As Du Halde states in the preface, these maps were adaptations of Chinese originals produced for the Emperor and in co-operation with Jesuit missionaries. The adaptations were brilliantly executed by D’Anville, the royal geographer, who had also created four entirely new general maps. A separate atlas was issued in 1737, both in Paris by Dezauche under the title Atlas general de la Chine, and by Scheurleer (as above), the former containing 50 and the latter 42 maps. Besides depicting China in unprecedented detail, this was the first Western atlas to show Tibet and a separate Korea. Cordier Sinica 48; cf. Mario Cams ‘The China Maps of Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d’Anville’ in Imago Mundi (2013, vol. 66 pt. 1: 51-69); cf. Lust 155.
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