A Copy of 1717 Kangxi Map as a Gift to King George I (by Whom, How, unclear)

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Tom Harper, The Kangxi Atlas in the King’s Topographical Collection. British Library, July 20, 2015 (blog).
britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/magnificentmaps/2015/07/the-kangxi-atlas-in-the-kings-topographical-collection-.html

Quote:

"The French Jesuit mission [dispatched by Louis XIV of France] to China in the 1690s was focused on this very ambition – geographical exploration in order to build a better European understanding of the empire.

"This led to the survey of the vast areas of the empire including all the Chinese provinces and parts of Tartary.

"Sources are inexistent with regards to a manuscript copy of the map being presented by Ripa to George I. Copper plates were part of the presentation set, but  no sign of these plates in the King’s Topographical Collection can be found.

"From a European perspective, the Kangxi atlas formed the basis for building a more accurate understanding of China. However, it took almost another fifteen years, before the monumental work by Jean-Baptiste Du Halde 杜赫德 [transliteration from the last two words of his French name]: 'Description géographique, historique, chronologique, politique, et physique de l'empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie chinoise 中华帝国及其所属鞑靼地区的地理、历史、编年纪、政治和博物 [中华帝国全志 for short],'  was published in 1735, including 41 maps of China by Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville 唐维勒.

Note:
(a) Matteo RIPA  马国贤
(b) Jean-Baptiste Du Halde
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Du_Halde
(1674 - 1743; “He did not travel to China, but collected seventeen Jesuit missionaries' reports and provided encyclopedic survey of the history, culture and society of China and ‘Chinese Tartary,’ that is, Manchuria”)
(c) Yet the following Wiki page has a different definition of Chinese Tartary.

Jean-Baptiste Régis  雷孝思
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_R%C3%A9gis
(“Father Ferdinand Verbiest 南懷仁 [l623-l688; Flemish, born in present-day Belgium) collected the earliest ideas of 'Tatary' [qv] (ie the Mongol Empire) during two journeys made to that country with the emperor (1682-3)”)