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JEAN BAPTISTE BOURGIGNON D' ANVILLE (1697-1782)
Nouvel atlas de la Chine, de la Tartarie Chinoise et du Thibet: contenant les Cartes générales & particuliers de ces Pays, ainsi que la Carte du Royaume de Coree, The Hague: H. Scheurleer, 1737. 2° (510 x 367mm). Title printed in red and black, 42 engraved maps, many double-page or folding, the first 2 hand-coloured in outline. Contemporary half vellum, the upper cover with paper cut to a heart shape laid down (rather worn). Provenance: "T.W.S." (initials on ex-libris label); later pencil annotation on endpapers.
Published to accompany Du Halde's Description ... de la Chine, printed in 4 volumes by Scheurleer in the same year. Koeman I, pp.48-49.
Nouvel atlas de la Chine, de la Tartarie Chinoise et du Thibet: contenant les Cartes générales & particuliers de ces Pays, ainsi que la Carte du Royaume de Coree, The Hague: H. Scheurleer, 1737. 2° (510 x 367mm). Title printed in red and black, 42 engraved maps, many double-page or folding, the first 2 hand-coloured in outline. Contemporary half vellum, the upper cover with paper cut to a heart shape laid down (rather worn). Provenance: "T.W.S." (initials on ex-libris label); later pencil annotation on endpapers.
Published to accompany Du Halde's Description ... de la Chine, printed in 4 volumes by Scheurleer in the same year. Koeman I, pp.48-49.
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