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JEAN-BAPTISTE DU HALDE (1674-1743).
Description Geographique Historique, Chronologique... de l'Empire de la Chine et de la tartarie Chinoise. Paris: P.G. le Mercier, 1735. 4 volumes. 2° (431 x 264mm). Half-titles, titles in red and black with engraved vignettes. 65 engraved plates, plans and maps (comprising 21 plates and plans, 8 double-page, 1 folding, 44 maps (17 folding, 3 hand-coloured in outline, 24 double-page), occasional engraved headpieces and initials, extra-illustrated with a cut-down and mounted plate from a later work bound in between pp.126 and 127 in vol.II. (Occasional light spotting and browning, to the text in the main, but affecting about four plates.) Contemporary calf gilt (rebacked, old spines laid down, later labels). Provenance: ?Mazuyer de la Tourette family (18th-century armorial ownership stamp); ?Pesache (ex libris stamp); P.Goyet (book-label); A.Brölemann (armorial bookplate).
FIRST EDITION of a prime source for the chinoiserie style. Du Halde's encyclopaedic survey, based on the reports of 17 Jesuit missionaries, is probably the most celebrated of all the 18th-century accounts of China. The plates illustrate costume, scenes from court life and other subjects. The large general map was based on Jesuit surveys carried out between 1708 and 1718. Cordier I, 46-7. (4)
Description Geographique Historique, Chronologique... de l'Empire de la Chine et de la tartarie Chinoise. Paris: P.G. le Mercier, 1735. 4 volumes. 2° (431 x 264mm). Half-titles, titles in red and black with engraved vignettes. 65 engraved plates, plans and maps (comprising 21 plates and plans, 8 double-page, 1 folding, 44 maps (17 folding, 3 hand-coloured in outline, 24 double-page), occasional engraved headpieces and initials, extra-illustrated with a cut-down and mounted plate from a later work bound in between pp.126 and 127 in vol.II. (Occasional light spotting and browning, to the text in the main, but affecting about four plates.) Contemporary calf gilt (rebacked, old spines laid down, later labels). Provenance: ?Mazuyer de la Tourette family (18th-century armorial ownership stamp); ?Pesache (ex libris stamp); P.Goyet (book-label); A.Brölemann (armorial bookplate).
FIRST EDITION of a prime source for the chinoiserie style. Du Halde's encyclopaedic survey, based on the reports of 17 Jesuit missionaries, is probably the most celebrated of all the 18th-century accounts of China. The plates illustrate costume, scenes from court life and other subjects. The large general map was based on Jesuit surveys carried out between 1708 and 1718. Cordier I, 46-7. (4)