Jesuit mapmaking in China : d'Anville's "Nouvelle atlas de la Chine" (1737) / edited by Roberto M. Ribeiro with John W. O'Malley, S.J.

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Book
Language
English
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Philadelphia : Saint Joseph's University Press, [2014]
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172 pages : illustrations, maps ; 34 cm.

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    Summary note
    Contains facsimile of the 42 maps from: Nouvel atlas de la Chine, de la Tartarie Chinoise, et du Thibet: contenant les cartes ... de ces pays, ainsi que la carte du royaume de Corée, la plupart levées sur les lieux etc / par Mr. d' Anville ... ; précedé d'une description de la Boucharie par un Officier Suédois qui a fait quelque séjour dans ce pays. -- La Haye : Henri Scheurleer, 1737.
    Notes
    Includes facsimile reproductions of 42 maps as found in: Nouvel atlas de la Chine, de la Tartarie chinoise, et du Thibet / par Mr. d' Anville. La Haye [The Hague, Netherlands] : Henri Scheurleer, 1737. This was a pirated edition containing re-engravings of d'Anville's maps, which were originally part of Jean-Baptiste du Halde's Description géographique, historique, chronologique, politique, et physique de l'empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie chinoise (published in Paris in 1735).
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Preface: Friendship and science / Roberto M. Ribeiro
    • Imperial China and the Jesuit mission / R. Po-chia Hsia
    • Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville and the Nouvelle atlas de la Chine / Mario Carns
    • Cartography during the times of the Kangxi Emperor: the age and the background / Han Qi
    • Reproduction of the original title page and translation of the foreword of the Nouvelle atlas de la Chine
    • List and order of the maps
    • Facsimile of the maps.
    Other title(s)
    D'Anville's "Nouvelle atlas de la Chine" (1737)
    ISBN
    • 9780916101817
    • 0916101819
    OCLC
    900464403
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