Du Halde (P.J.B.)

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, with notes Geographical, Historical, and Critical, and Other Improvements, particularly in the maps,

3 vol., including atlas volume, second and best English edition, portrait frontispiece, 64 maps by D’Anville, plans and engraved plates, red and black letter-pieces, contemporary calf, gilt decorated spines, rebacked, London, 1738-41

***Cordier, p.33.Hill's Collection of Pacific Voyages p.408. Lada-Mocarski Bibliography of Books on Alaska, No.2.

***Du Halde was the first man to describe the Chinese Empire in detail, and his work is also of great interest as being one of the first sources of information on Chinese ceramics available to Europeans.