DU HALDE, Jean Baptiste. The General History of China ... the second edition corrected, translated by Richard Brookes, London: by and for John Watts, 1739, 4 volumes, 8°, 4 folding engraved maps and 19 plates, many folding (a few short, clean tears to maps, occasional spotting and staining), contemporary speckled calf (rebacked, lightly rubbed) -- Gabriel de MAGALHAES. A New History of China, translated by John Ogilby, London: for Thomas Newborough, 1688, 8°, FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, folding engraved plan of "Pekim" (pen trials to title, occasional light spotting and staining), modern calf. [Wing M247] With a third book on China. (6)

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DU HALDE, Jean Baptiste. The General History of China ... the second edition corrected, translated by Richard Brookes, London: by and for John Watts, 1739, 4 volumes, 8°, 4 folding engraved maps and 19 plates, many folding (a few short, clean tears to maps, occasional spotting and staining), contemporary speckled calf (rebacked, lightly rubbed) -- Gabriel de MAGALHAES. A New History of China, translated by John Ogilby, London: for Thomas Newborough, 1688, 8°, FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, folding engraved plan of "Pekim" (pen trials to title, occasional light spotting and staining), modern calf. [Wing M247] With a third book on China. (6)

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Richard Brookes' translation of Du Halde's Description géographique, historique, chronologique, politique, et physique de l'empire de la Chine was first published by John Watts in 4 volumes in 1736. Edward Cave brought out a 2-volume quarto edition in 1738-41.

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