The large detailed map of upper China, the Korean peninsula and Japan accompanied Jean Baptiste du Halde’s ‘Description Geographique … de la Chine’. Du Halde was a Jesuit priest and confessor to Louis XIV. For many years he studied the Jesuit reports being sent back to Paris and published this magnificent four volume work in 1735. The maps accompanying the work were produced by Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d’Anville the noted cartographer of the day. One of the main cartographic sources was the Chinese woodblock atlas known as the Kangxi which was completed 1718-19. Shirley ‘Atlases in the BL’ T.Hald 1a no. 26.