A description of the empire of China and Chinese-Tartary, together with the kingdoms of Korea, and Tibet [electronic resource] : containing the geography and history (natural as well as civil) of those countries. Enrich'd with general and particular maps, and adorned with a gread number of cuts. From the French of P.J.B. Du Halde, Jesuit: with Notes geographical, historical, and critical; and other improvements, particularly in the mpas, by the translator. In two volumes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

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

Standardized Title:

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (2v.,plates ) maps,ports. ;

Other Title:

Description of the empire of China and Chinese-Tartary, together with the kingdoms of Korea, and Tibet

Place of Publication:

London : printed by T. Gardner in Bartholomew-Close, for Edward Cave, at St. John's Gate, MDCCXXXVIII. [1738]

Notes:

The titlepage to vol. 2., dated 1741, bears the imprint: printed by Edward Cave.

With an index.

Reproduction of original from Trinity College Library Watkinson Collection.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T148343.

OCLC:

508967511