Author | Du Halde, J.-B. (Jean-Baptiste), 1674-1743O'Malley, John W.Anville, Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d', 1697-1782Ribeiro, Roberto M. |
Place | Philadelphia, PA |
Publisher | Saint Joseph's Univerity Press |
Collection | Ricci Institute Library |
Edition | |
Language | English |
Type | Atlas, Digital Book (epub) |
Series | Early modern Catholicism and the visual arts series ; vol. 11 |
Shelf | Digital Archives, Seminar Room 102-103 |
Call Number | GA1123.6.A1 J47 2014 |
Description | 172 p. : ill., maps ; 34 cm. |
Note | 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. 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). 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 Cams -- 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. Local access only (epub): [Jesuit Mapmaking in China.epub] |
ISBN | 9780916101817 ; 0916101819 |