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DU HALDE, Jean Baptiste. Description Géographique, Historique, Chronologique, Politique, et Physique de l'Empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie Chinoise, The Hague: Henri Scheurleer, 1736, 4 volumes, 4°, second edition, titles printed in red and black, 53 engraved maps and plates, many folding (inked library stamps throughout on text and recto of many plates), later half morocco (library labels on covers) [Lust 12: "Encyclopaedic survey of China, compiled from unpublished and printed works of 17 Jesuits"] ; together with Emma Roberts' Hindostan (1845-47, 2 vols. in one, each plate stamped on recto). (5)