A description of the empire of China and Chinese-Tartary : together with the kingdoms of Korea, and Tibet : containing the geography and history (natural as well as civil) of those countries : in two volumes / from the French of P. J.B. Du Halde, Jesuit ; with notes geographical, historical, and critical ; and other improvements, particularly in the maps, by the translator.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Du Halde, J.-B. (Jean-Baptiste), 1674-1743.

Contributor:

Bowen, Emanuel, 1693 or 1694-1767.

Standardized Title:

Description géographique, historique, chronologique, politique, et physique de l'empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie chinoise. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

China.

Korea.

Tibet Autonomous Region (China).

Penn Provenance:

Forrest, Edwin, Estate of (donor)

Physical Description:

2 volumes : illustrations, maps, plans, portraits, music ; 42 cm (folio)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed by T. Gardner ... for Edward Cave ..., 1738-1741.

Notes:

Maps signed by Emanuel Bowen, who is therefore almost certainly the translator.

Originally issued to subscribers in fortnightly or monthly installments; cf. Cave's proposals, reprinted in Nichols, Literary anecdotes, vol. 5, p. 44-47.

Vol. 2 has variant publisher statement: Printed by Edward Cave ...

Signatures: vol. 1: [pi]2 a-b2 [c]2(-cl) [d]2(-d2) B-D2 [chi]1[=d2] B-8H2 8I2(-8I2); vol. 2: [A]2 B2 B-5F2 [a]2 b2 c2(-c2)

Pagination: vol. 1: [4], xi, [1], xii, [2], 124, 127-138, 141-678 p., [36] leaves of plates (some folding, some double); vol 2: [4], 52, 49-388, [10] p., [29] leaves of plates (some folding, some double).

Errors in pagination: vol. 1: p. 32 mispaged 23; 113, 109; 116, 112; 165, 168; 168, 165; 290, 292; 291, 289; 362-363, 358-359; 585, 577; 588, 580; vol 2: 50-51, 46-47, 110, 111, 111, 110; 237-243, 229-235; 325, 235; 357, 349; 380, 376.

Includes index to both vols. in vol. 2.

OCLC:

187453558