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Atlases - Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'. Nouvel Atlas de la China, de la Tartarie Chinoise, et du Thibet: Contenant les Cartes générales & particulieres de ces Pays, ainsi que la Carte du Royaume de Corée. With 42 copper maps (12 double-sheet size, 3 of which additionally folded, these border-colored). The Hague, H. Scheurleer, 1737. 12 pp. 55.5 x 41 cm. Contemporary half sheepskin binding (heavily rubbed). First edition as a separate atlas, the maps previously published in Du Halde's "Description de la Chine". - Koeman, Anv. 1 - Phillips 3189 - Cordier, BS 48 - Löwendahl 401 - Standard cartographic work on China, based on the survey of the country carried out by Jesuit missionaries in 1708-16 on behalf of the Kangxi Emperor. Contains multi-part maps of Tibet and Mongolia, as well as the first accurate cartographic survey of Korea based on a drawing by the Jesuit Regis, the best until modern times. The last map shows the "Voyage du Capitaine Beerings", "the first printed configuration of any part of Alaska, namely St. Lawrence Island." (Lada-M. 2). - Untrimmed and with wide margins, title and margins somewhat dusty and stained, overall fresh. VAT: *
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Atlases - Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'. Nouvel Atlas de la China, de la Tartarie Chinoise, et du Thibet: Contenant les Cartes générales & particulieres de ces Pays, ainsi que la Carte du Royaume de Corée. With 42 copper maps (12 double-sheet size, 3 of which additionally folded, these border-colored). The Hague, H. Scheurleer, 1737. 12 pp. 55.5 x 41 cm. Contemporary half sheepskin binding (heavily rubbed). First edition as a separate atlas, the maps previously published in Du Halde's "Description de la Chine". - Koeman, Anv. 1 - Phillips 3189 - Cordier, BS 48 - Löwendahl 401 - Standard cartographic work on China, based on the survey of the country carried out by Jesuit missionaries in 1708-16 on behalf of the Kangxi Emperor. Contains multi-part maps of Tibet and Mongolia, as well as the first accurate cartographic survey of Korea based on a drawing by the Jesuit Regis, the best until modern times. The last map shows the "Voyage du Capitaine Beerings", "the first printed configuration of any part of Alaska, namely St. Lawrence Island." (Lada-M. 2). - Untrimmed and with wide margins, title and margins somewhat dusty and stained, overall fresh. VAT: *
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