Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d’Anville / DU HALDE, J.-B. - Nouvel atlas de la Chine, de la Tartarie chinoise, et du Thibet. The Hague, H. Scheurleer, 1737. Original papered boards. Large folio. Printed title page., 2pp advertisement, 8pp text, 42 engraved maps of China, Tibet, Tartary and Korea, 12 folding. Excellent condition, large margins.

First edition of "the principal cartographic authority on China during the 18th century". It was the second major atlas of China produced in Europe following the Martini /Blaeu Novus Atlas Sinensis 1655. Through its unique combination of western and Chinese surveys, it brought the mapping of China to a new level of accuracy and detail.

Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d’Anville (1697-1782) beautifully printed and splendidly illustrated work is the summation of European knowledge on China in the 18th-century.
It was begun by the Jesuit missionaries to China in 1708, and their completed manuscripts were presented to the Emperor Kang-hi in 1718. Kang-hi ordered further surveys and from them were constructed the well-known maps forwarded to father Du Halde and used by d'Anville for this work.

Because the principles and methods of surveying had greatly improved by the late 17th- and early 18th-centuries, the result was the most accurate mapping of China available in Europe at the time.
The maps are by Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d’Anville (1697-1782), “the finest cartographer of his time” (Moreland & Bannister: Antique Maps, p.133).
For certain remote parts of northern China, Mongolia and Tibet, this work was the only adequate reference until the technological revolution in surveying in the 20th-century. In addition to the maps on China and Korea, Du Halde's work includes highly important map Carte des Pays traversés par le Capne Beerings contains the first printed configuration of any part of Alaska, namely St. Lawrence Island. Both the report and map are based on manuscripts that Bering had presented to the King of Poland who, in turn, presented them to Du Halde for inclusion in this work.

Containing the following 42 maps

1. Carte la plus generale et qui comprend la Chine, la Tartarie 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 MDCCXXXIV ; G. Kondet fesit et scrip.
2. Carte generale de la Chine / dressée sur les cartes particulieres que l'Empereur Cang-Hi a fait lever sur les lieux par les R.R. P.P. jesuites missioñaires dans cet empire par le Sr. d'Anville, geographe ordre. du Roi
3. Province de Pe-Tche-Li / C. de Putter sculp.
4. Province de Kiang-Nan
5. Province de Kiang-Si
6. Province de Fo-Kien
7. Province de Tche Kiang
8. Province de Hou-Quang
9. Province de Ho-Nan
10. Province de Chan-Tong
11. Province de Chan-Si
12. Province de Chen-Si
13. Province de Se-Tchuen
14. Province de Quang-Tong
15. Province de Quang-Si
16. Province d'Yun-Nan
17. Province de Koei-Tcheou
18. Carte gene rale de la Tartarie Chinoise / dressée sur les cartes particulieres faites sur les lieux par les RR PP jesuites et sur les memoires particulieres du P Gerbillon par le Sr. d'Anville, geographe ordre. du Roi Mars MDCCXXXII
19. Ie. Feuille de la Tartarie Chinoise: contenant le Leao tong, et les environs de Kirin Oula, le Pays de Cartchin et autres quartiers des Mongous
20. IIe. Feuille particuliere de la Tartarie Chinoise: contenant les environs de Nimgouta, qui est proprement l'ancien paÿs des Mantcheoux, et l'extrêmité la plus Septentrionale de la Corée
21. IIIe. Feuille particuliere de la Tartarie Chinoise: contenant les quartiers occupés par les Mongous au Nord de la Gr. Muraille et le païs d'Ortous, environné de la Riviere Hoang-Ho
22. IVe. Feuille particuliere de la Tartarie Chinoise: occupée par une partie du Cobi ou Cha-Mo désert sabloneux, jusques à la Ville de Hami
23. Ve. Feuille particuliere de la Tartarie Chinoise: contenant les environs de Tcitcicar et de Merguen, les païs de Tagouri et des solons, et l'extremité orientale du grand desert de Sable
24. VIe. Feuille particuliere de la Tartarie Chinoise: contenant le païs des Tartares Yupi et Ilan-Hala qui est de l'ancien païs Mantcheou
25. VIIe. Feuille particuliere de la Tartarie Chinoise: qui contient la plus grande partie du païs occupé par les Tartares Kalkas
26. VIIIe. Feuille particuliere de la Tartarie Chinoise: qui est le commencement du païs des Tartares Eluts, de l'extremité occidentale de celui des Kalkas
27. IXe. Feuille particuliere de la Tartarie Chinoise: où ses Limites avec la Tartarie Russienne sont exposés
28. Xe. Feuille de la Tartarie Chinoise: contenant le païs de Ke-Tching, l'embouchure du Saghalien-Oula dans la Mer Orientale, et la grande Isle qui est au dedans
29. Onzieme Feuille particul. de la Tartarie Chinoise: qui contient un pays dependant de la Russie au Couchant de Niptchou
30. XIIe. et derniere feuille del la Tartarie Chinoise
31. Korea : Royaume de Corée
32. Thibet : Carte generale du Thibet ou Bout-Tan et des pays de Kashgar et Hami / dressée sur les cartes et memoires des RR PP jesuites de la Chine et accordée avec la situation constante de quelques pays voisins, par le Sr. d'Anville, geographe ordre. du Roi. Avril 1733
33. Ire Feuille comprise dans la carte générale du Thibet: qui contient en particulier l'extrêmité occidentale du grand Desert de Sable et le pays aux environs de Hami
34. IIe. Feuille comprise dans la carte generale du Thibet: et qui contient en particulier le paÿs qui est au couchant de Tourfan
35. IIIe. Feuille comprise dans la carte générale du Thibet: et qui contient en particulier les environs de Kashgar
36. IVe. Feuille comprise dans la carte generale du Thibet: et qui contient en particulier le pais des Tartares de Hoho-Nor
37. Ve. Feuille que est proprement la premiere du Thibet: et qui contient Le Si-Fan et païs Limitrophë
38. VIe. Feuille, qui est la seconde du Thibet: et qui contient le pays qui est au Levant de Lasa
39. VIIe. Feuille qui est proprement la troisieme du Thibet: et qui contient le pais des environs du Tsanpou au couchant de Lasa
40. VIIIe. Feuille qui est proprement la quatriéme du Thibet: et qui donne l'origine du Tsanphon et du Gange.
41. IXe. et derniere feuille de celles qui sont comprises dans la carte generale du Thibet: et ou se trouve Latac
42. Siberia / Beering Street : Carte des pays: traversês par le Capne. Beerings depous la Ville de Tobolsk jusqu' à Kamtschatka

Map of Korea
Since the Jesuits were not allowed in Korea the "Tartar lord" (Mukedeng a troubleshooter and trusted assistant for the Kangxi emperor) made measurements and observations in the Manchurian and Korean regions in 1709 and 1710. He was accompanied by father Jean-Baptiste Regis (1664-1738), Father Pierre Jartoux (1669-1720) and Erhernberg Xavier Fridelli (1643-1743) While in Korea the team was under constant surveillance. The Tartar lord was however given a map, and father Jean-Baptiste Regis produced a map that came out in the Kangxi atlas and was than used and edited by d'Anville and published in 1735 in du Halde (description de la Chine) and as "Royaume de Coree" (atlas de la Chine 1737). Du Halde was a French Jesuit, and geographer of Paris.
Despite the broadening of the southern part of the peninsula, this map was in the main accurate and was widely copied in the next 150 years (McCune 1977 and Korea through western cartographic eyes - www.cartography.henny-savenije.pe.kr/frenchcartography.htm ).

Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville
was perhaps the most important and prolific cartographer of the 18th century. He engraved his first map at the age of fifteen and produced many maps of high quality throughout his career. He became the finest cartographer of his time and carried on the French school of cartography developed by the Sanson and the de L'Isle families.
Although he apparently never left the city of Paris, he had access to the reports and maps of French explorers, traders, and missionaries. During his long career he accumulated a large collection of cartographic materials that has been preserved. He was particularly interested in Asia and produced the first reasonably accurate map of China in 1735.
He became Royal Geographer and Cartographer to the King of France in the middle of the eighteenth century, at a time when French cartography was still considered to be the best in the world.
He was the successor to Guillaume Delisle as the chief proponent of scientific cartography, and his influence on his contemporaries was profound.

To illustrate the cartography of the middle to latter part of the eighteenth century a d'Anville map is essential. He was foremost in using the latest and most accurate cartographic information available. From the latest discoveries of the many French explorers to information available from explorers such as Cook and others. And unlike many cartographers of the day, he was not adverse to leave blank spaces in his maps, where knowledge was insufficient.

R.V. Tooley write : "D'Anville was the finest cartographer of his time, his attention to detail was exemplary, his maps having a great delicacy of engraving".

Thomas Basset and Philip Porter write: "It was because of D'Anville's resolve to depict only those features which could be proven to be true that his maps are often said to represent a scientific reformation in cartography." (The Journal of African History, Vol. 32, No. 3 (1991), pp. 367-413).