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. Enrich'd with general and particular maps, and adorned with a great number of cuts
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
Contributors: Bowen, Emanuel, -1767, tr; Cave, Edward, 1691-1754, publisher; Boston College High School; Weston College School of Theology
Publisher: Printed by T. Gardner in Bartholomew Close for Edward Cave
Published: 1738
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Description and travel; History
Other titles: Du Hal History of China; History of China
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, at St. John's Gate, MDCCXLI."

Collation: fol.: v.1: [pi]² a-b² [c]² [d]¹ [chi]B-[chi]D² B-8H² 8I¹ [$1 signed (missigning 5P as 4P)]; 352 leaves: p. [5] ii-xi [4] ii-xii [1] 2-124, 127-129 [1] 131-135 [1] 137-138, 141-638 [1] 640-678 (misprinting 32 as 23, 113 as 109, 116 as 112, 165 as 168, 168 as 165, 290 as 292, 291 as 289, 362-363 as 358-359, 585 as 577, 588 as 580); [36] leaves of plates (some folding, some double); v.2: [A]² [chi]B² B-5F² [a]² b² c¹ [$1 signed]; 203 leaves: p. [1] [blank] [3] 2-48, 45-236, 229-235, [1] 245-272 [1] 274-388 [10] (misprinting 110 as 111, 111 as 110, 321 as 313, 325 as 235, 357 as 349, 380 as 376); [29] leaves of plates (some folding, some double).

Includes index.

Backer-Sommervogel, IV, 37

Burns Library copy: stamps on t.p.: "Boston College High School. Domestic Library." ; "Boston College IHS" ; "Lower Library Greek Classics"; "Weston College. Weston, Mass."