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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 : enrich'd with general and particular maps, and adorned with a great number of cuts

by: Du Halde, J.-B. (Jean-Baptiste), 1674-1743, author; Gardner, Thomas, active 1735-1756, printer; Cave, Edward, 1691-1754, bookseller, printer; Fletcher, Henry, active 1715-1738, engraver; Bowen, Emanuel, 1693 or 1694-1767, engraver

Publication date: 1738

Collection: getty; americana

Contributor: Getty Research Institute

Language: English

Volume: 1

Binding: full calf; bookplate of John Coakley Lettsom on front pastedowns; edges sprinkled red

In library's copy of volume 1 pages ix-xi (second series) "A dissertation concerning Mr. d'Anville's general map" are bound after the table of contents (2 unnumbered pages) rather than after "The translator's preface."

Volume 2 has imprint: Printed by Edward Cave, at St. Joh's Gate, MDCCXLI

Head- and tail-pieces, decorative and historiated initials

Volume 1 has frontispiece portrait of Confucius signed HFletcher sculp

The general map in volume 1 has handcolored outlines and is signed E. Bowen sculp

Includes marginal notes

Includes index

Signatures: volume 1: pi² a-b² [c]² B-D² chi1 ²B-8H² 8I²(-8I2); volume 2: [A]² B² ²B-5F² [a]² b² c²(-c2)

Pagination: volume 1: [4], xi, [1], xii, [2],124, 127-138, 141-678 pages, [36] leaves of plates; volume 2: [4], 388, [10] pages, [28] leaves of plates

Many errors in pagination