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- Asia, Central Asia, China, India, Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: October 2020, South-East Asia
- ASIA – OTTOMAN SCHOOL ATLAS: آسيا [Asya]
- 320.00€
- 8°. 15-21 pp., facing pages marked with the same number, with colour lithographed plates, printed covers, stapled (light staining and foxing, otherwise in a good used condition).
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- CHINA – HAINAN (South Coast, including Yalong Bay): A Chart of the South Coast of Hay-nan: from Tinhosa to Guichou Survey’d in 1776 and 77 By Captn. Haldane.
- 950.00€
- Very Rare – the first issue of the first large-format printed sea chart of the South Coast of Hainan, based on a reconnaissance survey conducted by John Haldane of the British East India Company, from Sayer & Bennett’s magnificent ‘The East-India Pilot, or Oriental Navigator’.
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- Asia, China, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: October 2020
- CHINA – HANKOW / HANKOU (WUHAN) / URBANISM / FOREIGN TREATY PORTS: Foreign Settlement, Hankow, China.
- 2,000.00€
- A seemingly unrecorded whiteprint map of the ‘Foreign Settlements’ of Hankow (today part of Wuhan), which was long the industrial and logistics hub of inland China and a major focus of Western investment; created towards the end of the ‘Roaring Twenties’ by the prominent local architect and engineer R.N. Hewitt likely for the private use of a major British commercial…
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- Asia, China, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: October 2020
- CHINA / MISSIONARY OPERATIONS: A Map of China prepared for the China Inland Mission.
- 780.00€
- Extremely rare – 1 of only 2 known examples - an extraordinary variant of the first edition of the China Inland Mission’s (CIM) map of China, depicting all of the leading evangelical society’s outposts founded during its first 13 years of operation, with the present example depicting the travel routes of named CIM missionaries, vital details useful for academic research…
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- Asia, China, Maps and Prints, South-East Asia
- SOUTH CHINA SEA / KARIMATA ISLANDS, INDONESIA: A Chart of some Islands between Borneo and Banca, seen by the Osterly in her Passage Outward and Homeward, 1758 & 1759. Taken on the Spot by Mr. John Powell, Chief Mate of the Osterly.
- 650.00€
- A very rare sea chart of the South China Sea around the Karimata Islands, just the west of Borneo, based on an original manuscript made by the master of the ‘HMS Osterly’ during the Seven Years’ War, published by William Herbert.
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