Mailla, Joseph-Marie-Anne de Moyriac de | Grosier, Jean-B...

Histoire générale de la Chine, ou annales de cet empire; traduites du Tong-Kien-Kang-Mou. 1–12. Publiées par M. L'Abbé Grosier. Et dirigées par M. Le Roux des Hautesrayes [1–10]. [...] Revues & publiées par M. Le Roux des Hautesrayes [11]. [...] Contenant la table alphabétique [...] par M. Le Roux des Hautesrayes [12].

Paris, chez Ph.–D. Pierres & Clouisier, 1777–83. 4to. lxxii + cc + 352 (last leaf blank); +iv + 592; + xii + 588; + iv + 596 (last leaf blank); + viii + 564; + iv + 588; + viii + 484; + iv + 664 (last leaf blank); + vi + 660 pp. (last leaf blank); + iv + 580; + iv + 612 (last leaf blank); + xxiv + 196 + 348 pp. + 16 engraved plates (one folding) + 3 folding engraved maps, coloured in outline + 5 folding tables. Joseph-François-Marie-Anne de Moyriac de Mailla (1669–1748) drew extensively upon Chinese sources including Zhu Xi’s Tongjian Gangmu, the famous “Chinese Annals” in his Histoire générale. The history of the Ming and Qing period, supplemented from more recent sources, is contained in vols. 10 & 11. The manuscript of this compilation came to France in 1737. With the abrogation of the Society of Jesus (Dominus ac Redemptor, 1773) it came into the hands of Grosier who had it published. Volume 12 contains an alphabetical index to the work and three supplements: “Notice historique sur la Cochinchine” and “Mémoire historique sur le Tong-King” by Antoine Gaubil and “Notice historique sur les premières entreprises des Russes contre les Chinois, jusqu’ à l’établissement de Nertchinsk”.
Together with:
Grosier, Jean-Baptiste-Gabriel-Alexandre
Histoire générale de la Chine […] 13.
Paris chez Moutard […] & de Madame Comtesse d’Artois, 1785. 4to. iv + 900 pp.
Uniformly bound in contemporary half calf, spines gilt in compartments, top of spine of a few vols.. chipped; vols. 1, 4, 8, 9, 11 and suppl. lack final blank leaf, sheet v in vol. one wrongly folded and sheet K in vol. 2 supplied from another copy; some occasional dampstaining. The atlas to vol. 13 not present. Uniformly bound in contemporary half calf, spines gilt in compartments, top of spine of a few vols. chipped; vols. 1, 4, 8, 9, 11 and suppl. lack some occasional dampstaining. Cordier, BS, 1, cols. 583–85. China illustrata nova 599. Cf. China illustrata nova 588 for the prospectus (1776) of the forthcoming Histoire générale (1–12) and 646 and 1512 for the two issues of the supplement volume by Grosier (1785).

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