D'ANVILLE, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon or DANVILLE. - Lot 252

D'ANVILLE, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon or DANVILLE. Nouvel Atlas de la Chine, de la Tartarie chinoise et du Thibet contenant les cartes générales et particulières de ces pays ainsi que la carte du Royaume de Corée, la plupart levées sur les lieux par ordre de l'Empereur Cang-Hi. La Haye, by Henri Scheuleer, 1737. Large folio (54 x 40 cm), 12 ff. and 42 maps, fully mounts. Old half vellum, muted spine, marbled boards (worn binding, spotting on a few leaves). Atlas of China by Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville. First edition with this title of this important work on China and the first accurate cartographic survey of Korea. With 12 pp. of text (including an engraved title in red and black with map index) and 42 black copper-engraved maps (including one fold-out, 11 double-page and 30 full-page). It includes 5 general maps, 15 specific maps of China, 12 of Tartary and 9 of Tibet. The last map shows the route of Vitus Bering's expedition from Tobolsk to Kamchatka. These newly engraved maps reproduce, with minor variations, those given by d'Anville for the original edition of Père Du Halde's Description de la Chine published in 1735. The text features an original Relation de la Boucharie, a description of a region of Tartary given by a Swedish officer, which had never before been published. Cordier, 48-49.