Carte la plus generale et qui comprend la Chine, la Tartatarie chinoise, et le Thibet / dressée sur les cartes particulieres des RR PP Jesuites par le sr. d'Anville, geographe ordre. du roi, qui y a joint le pays compris entre Kashgar et la Mer Caspienne tiré des geographes et des historiens orientaux ; G. Kondet fecit et scrip.

Author/creator Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d' cartographer.
Other author Condet, Gerard, 1715-1764, engraver.
Other author Scheurleer, Henri, active 18th century, publisher.
Format Map
Publication Info[The Hague] : [H. Scheurleer], 1734.
Description1 map ; 45 x 67 cm on sheet 53 x 72 cm
Subjects

Cartographic dataScale [ca. 1:10,000,000].
Local noteJoyner Rare vault copy is hand colored.
General noteRelief shown pictorially.
General noteDate in Roman numerals.
General noteAppears in: Du Halde's Nouvel atlas de la Chine, de la Tartarie chinoise et du Thibet. La Haye : H. Scheurleer, 1737.
General noteIncludes illustrations. The title cartouche features the Kangxi emperor at top with a scene of two Jesuits entering a farm village filled with livestock. The distance scale cartouche includes two wolf hunters spying their prey.
General notePrime meridian: Peking.
General noteScale given in "Lys ou stades Chinois de 250 au degré," "Lys de 200 au degré," "Lieues Françoises de 25 au degré," and "Lieues de 20 au degré."
General noteShows all of China from the Caspian Sea to an early depiction of Sakhalin Island. Based largely on a woodblack Chinese atlas commissioned by the Kangxi emperor from Jesuit missionaries, completed in 1718 or 1719. One of the first western maps to include a relatively accurate depiction of Korea.--Dealer description.
Digital Bookplate Bookplate for Jack and Mary Spain
References Shirley, R. Maps in the atlases of the British Library, T.HALD-3a #1.
Acquisitions source Joyner Rare vault copy gift of Jack and Mary Spain, 6/19/2024
Genre/formMaps.
Genre/formMaps.
LCCN 2013591187

Availability

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Joyner Rare Vault G7820 1734 .A58 ✔ Available Request Material