Description:
Hand-colored map of China by Rigobert Bonne (1727-1794), Royal Hydrographer to the King in Paris, titled "L'EMPIRE/ DE LA CHINE/ d'Apres l'Atlas Chinois,/ AVEC LES ISLES DU JAPON./ Par M. Bonne/ Membre de la Societe Litteraire Militre./ Ingenieur Geographe &./ A PARIS/ Chez Lattre Graveur rue St. Jacques/ a la Ville de Bordeaux./ Avec Priv. du Roy." The map was taken from the "Atlas Moderne", No. 27, published in Paris by Lattre and Delalain. Bonne succeeded Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772) as Hydrographer at the Depôt de la Marine in 1773. Although he principally produced marine charts, he also provided maps for "Atlas Moderne" (1762), Raynal's "Histoire philosophique de l'établissement et du commerce des Européens dans les deux Indes" (1774), and "Atlas Encyclopédique" (1787-1788) produced in association with his son, Nicolas Demarest, and Bory de St. Vincent. The map has been hand-colored in green, yellow and pink; and the ornamental title cartouche in the right corner has a Chinese man reclining against a tree stump with a bird perched on his right hand and a parasol tied to the stump over his head. The map shows Chinese towns and settlements inland and the Chinese Tartary, and coastal harbors from Tonkin and Macao to the Korean peninsula; it also includes the offshore islands of Haynan, Formosa and Legueo, the southern islands of Japan called Xixo, Sicoco, and Nippon, and the top of the island of Luzon at the base of the map.
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