A description of the empire of China and Chinese-Tartary
Subtitle: together with the kingdoms of Korea, and Tibet : containing the geography and history (natural as well as civil) of those countries
By: from the French of P. J.B. Du Halde, Jesuit ; with notes geographical, historical, and critical ; and other improvements, particularly in the maps, by the translator
Publisher: Printed by T. Gardner ... for Edward Cave ...
Published: 1738
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Translated from: fre
Work titles: Description géographique, historique, chronologique, politique, et physique de l'empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie chinoise
Notes: Maps signed by Emanuel Bowen, who is therefore almost certainly the translator.

Originally issued to subscribers in fortnightly or monthly installments; cf. Cave's proposals, reprinted in Nichols, Literary anecdotes, vol. 5, p. 44-47.

Vol. 2 has variant publisher statement: Printed by Edward Cave ...

Signatures: vol. 1: [pi]² a-b² [c]²(-cl) [d]²(-d2) B-D² [chi]1[=d2] B-8H² 8I²(-8I2); vol. 2: [A]² B² B-5F² [a]² b² c²(-c2)

Pagination: vol. 1: [4], xi, [1], xii, [2], 124, 127-138, 141-678 p., [36] leaves of plates (some folding, some double); vol 2: [4], 52, 49-388, [10] p., [29] leaves of plates (some folding, some double).

Errors in pagination: vol. 1: p. 32 mispaged 23; 113, 109; 116, 112; 165, 168; 168, 165; 290, 292; 291, 289; 362-363, 358-359; 585, 577; 588, 580; vol 2: 50-51, 46-47, 110, 111, 111, 110; 237-243, 229-235; 325, 235; 357, 349; 380, 376.

Includes index to both vols. in vol. 2.