GROSIER (abbé Jean-Baptiste) Atlas général de la Chine ; pour servir à la description générale de cet empire. In-folio (47 x 31 cm), grey half-paper boards, smooth mute spine, untrimmed (contemporary binding). [2] ff. 65 plates of maps, plans, views, scenes, types, of which 49 double-page or folded, mostly by Humblot, all copper-engraved (mostly by Guélard). Beautiful atlas complete with maps and descriptive figures. Sommervogel announces 63 maps and plans, but the table shows 65. The atlas is composed of the same maps and plates used in the edition of Jean-Baptiste Du Halde's Description géographique [...] de la Chine (1735). They were also included in the Nouvel atlas de la Chine by Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville in 1737. The atlas was intended to complement Grosier's Description générale de la Chine, which formed the thirteenth (and final) volume of the Histoire générale de la Chine (1777-1783), written by Jean-Baptiste Grosier, Joseph-Anne-Marie de Moyriac de Mailla, and Michel-Ange-André Le Roux des Hautesrayes. Boards worn and rubbed, paper missing from spine, but sound. A few leaves slightly creased, a marginal tear to a map, with slight damage to the subject. Bibliography: Cordier, Sinica, I, p. 61. Sommervogel, III, col. 1858.