Gründlicher Unterricht vom Seidenbau : oder, Johann Baptista du Halde Chinesische Nachrichten, wie mit dem Seiden- und dem dazu nötigen Maulbeerbaumbau zu verfahren, welche in dem IIten Theil seiner ausführlichen Beschreibung des Chinesischen Reichs befindlich, wegen ihrer Kürze und Wichtigkeit aber absonderlich zum Druck befördert /

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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. Enrich'd with general and particular maps, and adorned with a great number of cuts. / 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. In two volumes.

Date range: 1738-174

The Tenth Sheet of Chinese Tartary, containing the Country of Ke-ching, the fall of the Sâghâlian Ûla into the Eastern Sea & ye Great Island opposite thereto.

Scale approximately 1:2,000,000.30 x 56 cmRelief shown pictorially.Map originally drawn in 1709-1710 by Jean Baptiste, Pierre Jartoux, Xavier Ehrenbert Fridelli, and Guillaume Bonjour.Prime meridians: Paris and Peking [Beijing].In cartouche: "This map ... in the year 1709 and impov'd by the editor, is inscrib'd to Mr. Peter Mallet."Three scale bars: li or Chinese furlongs in a degree; common French leagues; and English miles.Engravers: Emanuel Bowen, C. Moore, and G. Child.From Jean-Baptiste Du Halde's Description géographique, historique, chronologique, politique, et physique de l'empire de la Chine (English edition, 1738).Original in the private collection of Amir Aleksandrovich Khisamutdinov. Vladivostok, Russia. Digitized with permission and freely available to view on University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa Library digital repository eVols

The Second Sheet of Chinese Tartary, comprizing the Country about Ninguta (wch. is properly ye Ancient Seat of ye Manchew's) & ye most Northern Extremity of Korea.

Scale approximately 1:2,000,000.28 x 46 cmRelief shown pictorially.Map originally drawn in 1709-1710 by Jean Baptiste, Pierre Jartoux, Xavier Ehrenbert Fridelli, and Guillaume Bonjour.Prime meridians: Paris and Peking [Beijing].In cartouche: "This map ... in the year 1709 and impov'd by the editor, is inscrib'd to Mr. Peter Mallet."Three scale bars: li or Chinese furlongs in a degree; common leagues of France; and English miles.Engravers: Emanuel Bowen, C. Moore, and G. Child.From Jean-Baptiste Du Halde's Description géographique, historique, chronologique, politique, et physique de l'empire de la Chine (English edition, 1738).Original in the private collection of Amir Aleksandrovich Khisamutdinov. Vladivostok, Russia. Digitized with permission and freely available to view on University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa Library digital repository eVols