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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 ... / From the French of P.J.B. du Halde, Jesuit ... In two volumes
Bib ID 2556471
Format BookBook
Author
Du Halde, J.-B. (Jean-Baptiste), 1674-1743
 
Description London : printed by T. Gardner, for Edward Cave, 1738-41 
2 v. : front, plates, ports, fold, maps (1 col.) plans ; 40 cm. (fol.) 
Notes

Imprint of Vol. 2 reads "Printed by Edward Cave. 1741".

"Enrich'd with general and particular maps, and adorned with a great number of cuts ... With notes geographical, historical, and critical; and other improvements, particularly in the maps, by the translator."

C & C 3492-3.

The 2 v. of RBq MISC 71 are bound together.

Subjects Tibet Autonomous Region (China) - History - Early works to 1800.  |  Tibet Autonomous Region (China) - Description and travel - Early works to 1800.  |  China - History - Early works to 1800.  |  China - Description and travel - Early works to 1800.  |  Korea - History - Early works to 1800.  |  Korea - Description and travel - Early works to 1800.

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