{"title":"Kowloon","description":"\u003cp\u003eAntique and vintage maps of Kowloon trace its streets, waterfront and expanding urban districts. Chinese-language plans of Yau Ma Tei and the peninsula sit alongside Sun Sun’s bilingual street maps, Admiralty harbour charts and detailed Hong Kong Government surveys. Coverage includes Tsim Sha Tsui, Mong Kok, Hung Hom, Ma Tau Wai, To Kwa Wan and Kai Tak, with railway land, reclamation schemes and industrial shorelines recorded at different dates.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"environs-of-hong-kong-victoria-kowloon-antique-town-city-plan-china-1924-map-p-6-015496","title":"'Environs of Hong Kong'. Victoria Kowloon antique town city plan. 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London: Geographical Section, General Staff, No. 3868, War Office, 1952. Large-scale topographic map of Victoria Harbour and its environs, covering Hong Kong Island, Kowloon, and adjacent areas of the New Territories. The central and most desirable sheet from the War Office’s 24-sheet series of maps of Hong Kong and the New Territories. Originally published in 1930, based on air survey by the Royal Air Force and ground control by the Colonial Survey Section, Royal Engineers (1924–25). This fifth edition, issued in 1952, appeared only a few years after the end of the Japanese occupation. A detailed and authoritative British military map, combining aerial and ground survey data, with clear depiction of relief, coastline, and infrastructure at mid-century. The legend identifies features such as marshes, mangroves, “temporary native quarters,” and “Chinese tombs.” Lithographed map printed in colour.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51543036002651,"sku":"P-7-027902","price":2080.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-7-027902a.jpg?v=1760551302"},{"product_id":"geological-map-of-hong-kong-kowloon-and-the-new-territories-2-sheets-1972-p-7-027901","title":"Geological Map of Hong Kong, Kowloon and the New Territories. 2 Sheets 1972","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eGeological Map of Hong Kong, Kowloon and the New Territories [2 Sheets]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51543036330331,"sku":"P-7-027901","price":1980.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-7-027901a.jpg?v=1760551302"},{"product_id":"sunsun-s-street-map-of-kowloon-hong-kong-vintage-folding-city-plan-1969-p-6-112353","title":"SunSun’s Street Map of Kowloon—Hong Kong—Vintage folding city plan 1969","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'中英文九龍全圖 附街名索引 \/ Sun Sun’s Street Map of Kowloon \/\/ Yaumati and Mong Kok \/\/ Tsim Shatsui \/\/ Kwun Tong \/\/ Lai Yue Mun Cha Kwo Ling'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eSun Sun’s newly revised bilingual plan shows Kowloon in 1969 at a decisive stage in its post-war transformation. The main map extends from Lai Chi Kok and Sham Shui Po south to Tsim Shatsui and east through Kowloon City, San Po Kong and Kai Tak, identifying streets, rail and bus routes, ferry services, piers, estates, schools, hospitals, hotels, parks and proposed works in English and traditional Chinese. Four inset plans enlarge Yaumati and Mong Kok, Tsim Shatsui, Kwun Tong, and Lai Yue Mun with Cha Kwo Ling. Their coverage reflects the rapid eastward spread of residential and industrial development, while Kai Tak’s long harbour runway and the numerous ferry routes reveal the infrastructure on which the growing city depended. A letter-and-number grid serves the street index. Published in the year construction began on the Cross-Harbour Tunnel, and three years before it opened, the map captures Kowloon’s transport network immediately before direct road traffic between the peninsula and Hong Kong Island transformed movement across Victoria Harbour.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53959023329627,"sku":"P-6-112353","price":1540.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-6-112353a.jpg?v=1788372716"},{"product_id":"sunsun-s-street-map-of-kowloon-hong-kong-vintage-folding-city-plan-1967-p-6-112352","title":"SunSun’s Street Map of Kowloon—Hong Kong—Vintage folding city plan 1967","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'中英文九龍全圖 附街名索引 \/ Sun Sun’s Street Map of Kowloon \/\/ Yaumati and Mong Kok \/\/ Tsim Shatsui \/\/ Hung Hum \/\/ Kowloon Tong and Yau Yat Chuen \/\/ Layout Plan of the New Kai Tak Airport'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eSun Sun’s large bilingual plan records Kowloon in 1967 amid Hong Kong’s rapid post-war expansion. This is the Hong Kong which featured in the opening sequence of the James Bond movie \"You Only LIve Twice\", released the same year. The principal map follows the peninsula from Lai Chi Kok and Cheung Sha Wan through Sham Shui Po, Kowloon City and San Po Kong to Kai Tak, naming streets, railways, bus routes, ferry services, piers, public buildings, schools, hospitals, estates and proposed works in English and traditional Chinese. Five inset plans provide larger-scale coverage of Yaumati and Mong Kok, Tsim Shatsui, Hung Hum, Kowloon Tong and Yau Yat Chuen, and the layout of the new Kai Tak Airport. The airport runway projecting into Kowloon Bay, areas of reclamation and extensive new housing show how transport infrastructure and land development were reshaping the city. A letter-and-number grid serves the accompanying street index. Marked as the 1967 revised and augmented edition, the sheet is both a practical contemporary guide and a detailed record of Kowloon shortly before construction of the Cross-Harbour Tunnel began.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53959023788379,"sku":"P-6-112352","price":1660.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-6-112352a.jpg?v=1788372716"},{"product_id":"zui-xin-jiu-long-jie-dao-tu-latest-kowloon-street-map-popular-practical-book-series-hong-kong-1964-p-8-007077","title":"最新九龍街道圖 Latest Kowloon Street Map—Popular Practical Book Series—Hong Kong 1964","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'最新九龍街道圖 (Latest Kowloon Street Map)'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePrinted throughout in emphatic red, this Chinese-language folding plan is a practical street guide and a vivid portrait of Kowloon in 1964. It follows the dense urban corridor from Tsim Sha Tsui through Yau Ma Tei and Mong Kok, extending east to Hung Hom, To Kwa Wan, Kowloon City and Kai Tak. The railway runs to the original Tsim Sha Tsui waterfront terminus; nearby, the former Whitfield Barracks occupies the ground opened as Kowloon Park in 1970. Kai Tak’s harbour runway projects into Kowloon Bay, and Kowloon Walled City remains part of the living urban fabric. Wharves, piers, public buildings and a typhoon-signal table reinforce the map’s everyday usefulness. Comparison with modern Kowloon is especially rewarding: the MTR had yet to open, the railway terminus had not moved to Hung Hom, and West Kowloon reclamation had not pushed the shoreline into Victoria Harbour. The imprint credits the 大眾實用叢書出版公司 (Popular Practical Book Series Publishing Company) with its drawing and dates it 1964; its folding format, detailed Chinese nomenclature and distribution address suggest a local guide for Chinese-reading residents and visitors. We could locate no institutional or market record for this issue, an unusually elusive survival of post-war Hong Kong street mapping.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54020020175195,"sku":"P-8-007077","price":1360.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-8-007077a.jpg?v=1788980449"},{"product_id":"11-nw-20b-ma-tau-wai-ho-man-tin-kowloon-hong-kong-government-survey-1986-map-p-8-007079","title":"11-NW-20B—Ma Tau Wai \u0026 Ho Man Tin—Kowloon—Hong Kong Government survey 1986 map","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e11-NW-20B — Series HP1C [Ma Tau Wai and Ho Man Tin, Kowloon]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eAt 1:1,000, this Hong Kong government plan records Ma Tau Wai and Ho Man Tin building by building. King George V School, Tin Kwong Road and Lok Man Sun Chuen anchor a dense field of individual footprints, roads, paths, slopes, spot heights and landscaped ground. This is not a simplified visitor map: HP1C was the Government’s largest-scale topographic series, surveyed and plotted for detailed planning and cadastral work, and continuously revised as the city changed. The September 1986 full revision therefore fixes an unusually exact moment in Kowloon’s development, rewarding comparison of surviving schools and street alignments with later housing and transport-led redevelopment. A trimmed fragment of adjoining sheet 11-NE-16A overlaps the upper-right corner and should be understood as part of the object, not mistaken for a second complete sheet. Intended for practical use and limited circulation, this government survey is scarce on the market. We could find no dealer or auction record of another example of this sheet and revision.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54020020470107,"sku":"P-8-007079","price":460.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-8-007079a.jpg?v=1788980450"},{"product_id":"xin-hui-biao-zhun-jiu-long-you-ma-di-xiang-xi-jie-dao-quan-tu-standard-detailed-street-map-of-kowloon-yau-ma-tei-c1933-p-8-007078","title":"新繪標準九龍油麻地詳細街道全圖 Standard Detailed Street Map of Kowloon \u0026 Yau Ma Tei c1933","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'新繪標準九龍油麻地詳細街道全圖 (Newly Drawn Standard Complete Detailed Street Map of Kowloon and Yau Ma Tei)'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn evocative Chinese-language folding plan of pre-war Kowloon, when dense street blocks along Nathan Road gave way rapidly to railway land, military ground, cemeteries, villages and open country. It records the original Kowloon–Canton Railway terminus and waterfront wharves at Tsim Sha Tsui, Yau Ma Tei’s shoreline and typhoon shelter, and Hung Hom’s industrial waterfront, including docks and the Green Island Cement works. Farther east, Kai Tak remains a compact early airfield, before wartime enlargement and the later harbour runway, while Kowloon Walled City forms an enclosed precinct beside Kowloon City. A decorative compass rose, extensive Chinese street nomenclature and an inset of Hong Kong and the New Territories add visual interest and topographical detail. The lower-right storm-signal table supplies precise dating evidence. Its ten-number code—including Signals 2 and 3 for south-westerly and south-easterly strong winds, and the locally unused Signal 4—matches the system introduced on 1 March 1931 and revised in 1935. This places the cartographic information or engraving most plausibly between these dates; no publisher or printing date is apparent. We found no institutional or market record for this map. These features give this elusive map exceptional appeal as a record of Kowloon before war and post-war urbanisation.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54020020797787,"sku":"P-8-007078","price":2020.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-8-007078a.jpg?v=1788980449"},{"product_id":"11-ne-16a-16c-to-kwa-wan-ma-tau-kok-kowloon-bay-hong-kong-government-1980-map-p-8-007080","title":"11-NE-16A\/16C—To Kwa Wan—Ma Tau Kok—Kowloon Bay—Hong Kong Government 1980 map","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e11-NE-16A \/ 11-NE-16C — Series HP1S [To Kwa Wan, Ma Tau Kok and Kowloon Bay]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eTwo joined 1:1,000 government survey sheets create a continuous, exceptionally detailed plan of To Kwa Wan, Ma Tau Kok and the western shore of Kowloon Bay. Individual buildings, factory and utility compounds, roads, piers and shoreline works reveal how closely housing and industry were interwoven: the gas works, Sung Wong Toi Road, ferry-pier area and Kai Tak Airport’s edge are legible, with the survey continuing south towards Hok Yuen. The joined format allows the waterfront to be read as a whole; contrasting pink and yellow paper tones make their physical union immediately visible. Both were compiled in January 1974, but their different full-revision dates—August 1980 for 11-NE-16A and August 1979 for 11-NE-16C—mean the composite cannot predate August 1980. It preserves an industrial harbour landscape before Kai Tak’s 1998 closure and the area’s subsequent redevelopment, including the later arrival of the Tuen Ma line and Sung Wong Toi station. Finding these two adjacent revisions already joined gives this example particular documentary and display interest. These government survey sheets were intended for practical use and limited circulation. The joined pair is scarce on the market: we could find no dealer or auction record of another pair with these revisions.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54020020928859,"sku":"P-8-007080","price":680.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-8-007080a.jpg?v=1788980450"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.antiquemapsandprints.com\/collections\/kowloon.oembed","provider":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}