China
Antique maps and prints of China range from early European accounts and atlas maps to treaty-port plans, harbour charts and ...
Read MoreAntique maps and prints of China range from early European accounts and atlas maps to treaty-port plans, harbour charts and twentieth-century pictorial maps. Works by Bellin, Stanford, Weller and Dennys accompany views of cities, temples, landscapes and everyday life. Beijing and Shanghai are particularly well represented, alongside the Yangtze, southern trading ports, provincial surveys and maps documenting war and changing foreign settlements.
Antique maps and prints of China range from early European accounts and atlas maps to treaty-port plans, harbour charts and twentieth-century pictorial maps. Works by Bellin, Stanford, Weller and Dennys accompany views of cities, temples, landscapes and everyday life. Beijing and Shanghai are particularly well represented, alongside the Yangtze, southern trading ports, provincial surveys and maps documenting war and changing foreign settlements.