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Observatoire de Peking

General Atlas of China, Chinese Tartary, and Tibet: to serve the various descriptions and histories of this empire / by M. d'Anville, first geographer to the king. Rev. ed. of: New Atlas of China, Chinese Tartary and Tibet. 1737. This is a mirror copy of a drawing by Father Louis Le Comte ("Perhaps your highness will be very glad to see all of a sudden the layout of it in a figure. The drawing that I have done…”), published in 1696 in volume I of his New memoirs on the present state of China.

Date
1697–1782
Mapmaker / publisher
Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'
Archive
Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
Type
map
Original size
6,151 × 4,265 pixels

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"Observatoire de Peking" (1697–1782). Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Observatoire_de_Peking.jpg

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