{"title":"The Treaty Ports of China and Japan","description":"\u003cp\u003eThese maps of China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan record the treaty ports during rapid expansion following the Second Opium War and Japan’s opening to Western trade. Co-compiler and editor Nicholas Belfield Dennys produced \u003cem\u003eThe Treaty Ports of China and Japan\u003c\/em\u003e (1867) for merchants, travellers and residents. Coverage includes Canton, Shanghai, Ningbo, the Yangtze ports, Nagasaki, Yokohama, Hakodate and Yedo (Tokyo), alongside harbours, river routes and coastal surveys. Highlights include the large hand-coloured plan of Victoria, Hong Kong, Canton’s walled city and Shanghai’s Bund and foreign concessions. Several particularly early city plans, including Yokohama and Jiujiang, document foreign settlements only a few years after their establishment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe preface explains that many maps are original and, “even if regarded only as the pioneers of more complete plans, will possess at least some value”. The engravers generally remain unnamed, although the preface states: “while the maps have all been engraved by natives”.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"map-of-the-yang-tze-kiang-yangtze-river-china-grand-canal-dennys-1867-old-p-8-007063","title":"Map of the Yang-tze-kiang—Yangtze River, China—Grand Canal—Dennys 1867 old","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'Map of the Yang-tze-kiang.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eA map of the lower and middle Yangtze from Kin-chow and Tung-ting Lake through Hankow, Wuchang, Hanyang, Kiu-kiang, Nanking and Chinkiang to Shanghai and Woosung. Poyang Lake, the Han River and Grand Canal show how central China’s producing regions connected with the coast. Published in 1867, it records the river only three years after the fall of the Taiping capital at Nanking. Article X of the 1858 Treaty of Tientsin provided for foreign merchant navigation and river ports, but Taiping occupation delayed implementation. An Anglo-Chinese expedition reached Hankow in 1858, and British consulates opened at Chinkiang, Kiu-kiang and Hankow in 1861. By the mid-1860s steamers carried manufactures inland and tea down to Shanghai, negotiating seasonal water-level changes, shoals and wrecks. Dennys drew on Thomas Blakiston’s 1862 Yangtze account, although direct dependence on Blakiston’s route plan remains unproved. Exceptionally scarce: our research located no other separate dealer or auction record for this map.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54020019945819,"sku":"P-8-007063","price":400.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-8-007063a.jpg?v=1788980449"},{"product_id":"town-and-harbour-of-macao-macau-peninsula-inner-harbour-dennys-1867-old-map-p-8-007053","title":"Town and harbour of Macao—Macau peninsula \u0026 Inner Harbour—Dennys 1867 old map","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'Town and harbour of Macao.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eA plan of Macao before extensive reclamation, showing Praia Grande, the Inner Harbour and steamer wharf, Guia, Monte, Penha and Barra forts, the Barrier Gate, Mong-ha, Green Island and Casa Branca. Portuguese occupation dated from the sixteenth century, but Macao was not a port opened by the Treaty of Nanking; Hong Kong’s rise after 1842 eroded its commercial pre-eminence. By 1867 Praia Grande was lined with residences and consular flagstaffs, St Francis barracks had been completed in 1866, and Guia lighthouse had operated since September 1865. The Inner Harbour was silting, admitting only light-draught vessels, while proposed embankments anticipated later reclamation. Imports reached roughly $6.84 million and exports $4.66 million in 1865, principally rice, sugar, tea, dyestuffs and opium. The plan records Macao’s continuing role as a harbour and staging point after Hong Kong’s ascent. Separate examples are very scarce: our research located one market sale in 2010, but no subsequent dealer offering or auction result.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54020019978587,"sku":"P-8-007053","price":500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-8-007053a.jpg?v=1788980449"},{"product_id":"map-of-foochow-fuzhou-city-foreign-settlements-residences-hongs-dennys-1867-p-8-007056","title":"Map of Foochow—Fuzhou city \u0026 foreign settlements—Residences \u0026 Hongs—Dennys 1867","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'Map of Foochow.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eA plan of Fuzhou’s expanding tea port, showing the walled city, Nantai river suburb, Chung-chow island and bridges, and foreign compounds on the Min’s southern hills. The walls enclosed three celebrated hills and extended for six to seven miles. Numbered residences, lettered hongs and a distance table identify consular, missionary and mercantile premises. Opened by the Treaty of Nanking in 1842, Foochow offered direct access to Fujian black teas previously sent overland to Canton. Exports accelerated after an American firm established interior connections in 1855. Dennys counted about fifty foreign merchants and over one hundred foreign residents in 1865; tea exports reached 66 million lb in 1865–66, roughly two-thirds destined for Britain. A branch of the Oriental Bank and the Foochow Advertiser appeared in 1866. Ocean-going vessels stopped at Pagoda Anchorage, ten miles downstream; passengers continued by local boat to the consulate and hongs opposite Nantai. Separate examples are exceptionally scarce: our research located two 2010 records apparently relating to one relisted sheet, and a distinct auction example sold in 2022.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54020020011355,"sku":"P-8-007056","price":300.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-8-007056a.jpg?v=1788980449"},{"product_id":"island-of-hongkong-hong-kong-kowloon-surrounding-waters-dennys-1867-old-map-p-8-007050","title":"Island of Hongkong—Hong Kong, Kowloon \u0026 surrounding waters—Dennys 1867 old map","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'Island of Hongkong'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn unusually early map of the entire British colony, showing Hong Kong’s mountainous interior and deeply indented coast, Victoria on the north shore, Aberdeen and Tytam, neighbouring Lamma and part of Kowloon across the harbour. It records the island only a generation after its cession in 1842 and six years after Britain acquired the Kowloon peninsula: Victoria is already a dense mercantile capital, while much of the island remains topographically dominant and thinly settled. The 1865 census recorded 125,594 inhabitants, including a large boat population and just over 2,000 Europeans and Americans; 2,254 vessels of 1,013,748 tons entered in 1864. The harbour channel, anchorages and coastal settlements supplied practical intelligence for merchants, residents and travellers. Separate examples of this map remain highly elusive: our search found one commercial sale in 2010, but no further dealer or auction record since then.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54020020044123,"sku":"P-8-007050","price":1000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-8-007050a.jpg?v=1788980449"},{"product_id":"from-tungchow-to-peking-later-boxer-rebellion-route-annotations-dennys-1867-map-p-8-007067","title":"From Tungchow to Peking–later Boxer Rebellion route annotations—Dennys 1867 map","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'From Tungchow to Peking'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eA plan of the thirteen-mile approach from Tungchow to Peking, showing river, canal, paved roads, bridges, ferry and the eastern gates of the Chinese and Tartar cities. Dennys’s 1867 engraving reduces Sheet 4 of the British Pei-Ho survey, made in 1860 by Lieutenant-Colonel Garnet Wolseley with Lieutenant R. Harrison, R.E., and published in 1863. It preserves cartography from the Anglo-French advance, including the granite-paved imperial road and Chang-kia-wan, where Qing forces resisted in September 1860. The route subsequently served foreign legations admitted to Peking by the treaties. Later black manuscript lines and notes apparently identify Japanese, Russian, British and American approaches, camps and “14 August”, consistent with the multinational relief of Peking’s besieged Legation Quarter on 14 August 1900 during the Boxer Rebellion. The annotator and annotation date remain unknown; contemporary campaign use is unconfirmed. Our research located one other loose example in a mixed five-map auction lot in 2022, but no separately catalogued sale or comparable example with these apparently Boxer-related annotations.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54020020142427,"sku":"P-8-007067","price":320.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-8-007067a.jpg?v=1788980449"},{"product_id":"island-of-formosa-taiwan-island-map-dennys-1867-old-antique-plan-chart-p-8-007057","title":"Island of Formosa—Taiwan island map—Dennys 1867 old antique plan chart","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'Island of Formosa'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn early map of Taiwan’s treaty-port era, showing Tamsui, Kelung, Taiwan-fu, Takao, Mount Morrison at 10,800 feet and Botel Tobago. Detailed western plains contrast with a schematic interior and east coast: Qing settlement concentrated in the west, while mountainous indigenous territories remained poorly known to foreign surveyors. The Treaty of Tientsin of 1858, ratified in 1860, opened Taiwan to foreign commerce. Dennys’s 1867 map records four operative ports with small consular and Customs establishments. Takao had opened in 1864; Tamsui had only a handful of foreign houses. Rice and sugar dominated southern exports, while tea, camphor, coal, indigo, jute, rice-paper pith and sulphur drew merchants north. The map predates provincial status, Japanese rule from 1895, railways and modern harbour engineering. Its information drew on consul Robert Swinhoe’s 1865 trade report and Notes on Formosa, and a naval surveying expedition; no draughtsman is named. Exceptionally scarce as a separately offered map: our research located no other separate dealer or auction record.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54020020076891,"sku":"P-8-007057","price":380.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-8-007057a.jpg?v=1788980450"},{"product_id":"native-plan-of-the-attack-on-the-taku-forts-1860-2nd-opium-war-dennys-1867-map-p-8-007065","title":"Native plan of the attack on the Taku Forts—1860—2nd Opium War—Dennys 1867 map","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'Native plan of the attack on the Taku Forts by the Allied Squadron. 25th June, 1860.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Chinese pictorial battle plan of the Taku Forts at the Peiho’s mouth, guarding the maritime route to Tientsin and Peking. Chinese inscriptions and pictograms depict fortified banks, batteries, camps, junks, river barriers and booms, with Allied side-wheel steamships below. The heading apparently identifies Tianjin’s land-and-water defences under Prince Sengge Rinchen. The engraved title misdates the failed Allied assault: it occurred on 25 June 1859, not 1860. Anglo-French forces had captured the forts in 1858 and compelled the Treaties of Tientsin. Returning for ratification the following June, the squadron encountered strengthened defences, blocked channels and mud flats, suffering a conspicuous defeat. The forts finally fell on 21 August 1860, opening the route to the capital and the Convention of Peking. The shallow bar, twisting river and winter ice continued to govern shipping bound for Tientsin. Dennys’s 1867 engraving identifies itself as a “Native plan”, preserving an unnamed Chinese source and its distinctive perspective on the battle. Exceptionally scarce: our research located no other separate dealer or auction record for this map.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54020020109659,"sku":"P-8-007065","price":400.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-8-007065a.jpg?v=1788980450"},{"product_id":"port-of-tai-wan-foo-port-of-takao-tainan-kaohsiung-taiwan-dennys-1867-map-p-8-007058","title":"Port of Tai-wan-foo \/ Port of Takao—Tainan \u0026 Kaohsiung, Taiwan—Dennys 1867 map","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'Port of Tai-wan-foo. \/\/ Port of Takao.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eTwo harbour plans on one sheet compare Taiwan-fu (Tainan) and Takao (Kaohsiung) as foreign trade began. The upper maps Anping, Fort Zeelandia, sandbanks and the inland city; the lower identifies Ape’s Hill, Saracen’s Head and Island, the village and a mineral spring around Takao’s lagoon. Silting forced Taiwan-fu’s shipping to anchor three miles offshore, with cargo crossing dangerous surf and Fort Zeelandia serving as a sea-mark. Takao offered a sheltered lagoon, although its entrance bar constrained shipping. Both ports arose from the 1858 treaty settlement; Dennys dates Takao’s opening to 1864. Despite having only a few European houses and stores, it recorded 153 foreign-vessel entries totalling 27,648 tons in 1865. Sugar, turmeric, sesame and rice were exported; cotton goods, woollens and opium imported. Drawing on Robert Swinhoe’s reports, Dennys’s 1867 maps predate modern reclamation around Tainan and the former Taijiang lagoon and Kaohsiung’s development into a major engineered harbour. Exceptionally scarce: our research located no other separate dealer or auction record for this map.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54020020207963,"sku":"P-8-007058","price":300.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-8-007058a.jpg?v=1788980450"},{"product_id":"hand-map-of-swatow-shantou-han-river-harbour-dennys-1867-old-antique-p-8-007054","title":"Hand map of Swatow—Shantou \u0026 Han River harbour—Dennys 1867 old antique","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'Hand map of Swatow.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eA street-and-harbour plan of Swatow (Shantou) during its first years as a treaty port, showing the Han River waterfront opposite the British Consulate and jetty at Kakchio. Bradley \u0026amp; Co.’s jetty, an old fort, pilot station, fishing stakes and the low-water line record the practical workings of the port. Swatow opened under the Treaty of Tientsin, with British and American consuls arriving in 1860. It had been a small settlement serving Chaozhou, thirty-five miles inland. Foreign merchants previously used Double Island as an unrecognised opium station. Attempts to lease a settlement failed amid local hostility in 1862, leaving the fragmented foreign presence mapped here. Nevertheless, Dennys recorded 1,169 vessel entries totalling 444,056 tons and trade worth about $13.3 million in 1865. Sugar exports alone reached 529,487 piculs. Other exports included tobacco and paper; beancake, cotton goods and opium came in. Published in 1867, the plan predates modern Shantou’s absorption of these river margins. Exceptionally scarce: our research located no other separate dealer or auction record for this map.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54020020306267,"sku":"P-8-007054","price":380.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-8-007054a.jpg?v=1788980450"},{"product_id":"amoy-harbour-xiamen-quemoy-kinmen-harbour-map-dennys-1867-old-antique-p-8-007055","title":"Amoy Harbour—Xiamen \u0026 Quemoy\/Kinmen—harbour map—Dennys 1867 old antique","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'Amoy Harbour.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eA harbour chart of Amoy (Xiamen), including Amoy Island, Kulangsu (Gulangyu), Quemoy (Kinmen), surrounding islands, channels and anchorages. Captured by British forces in August 1841, Amoy became one of the five ports opened by the Treaty of Nanking in 1842. Kulangsu, occupied by British troops until 1845, became the principal foreign residential quarter, with a British consulate, missions and cemetery; its formal International Settlement followed only in 1903. Dennys counted about 115 foreign residents in 1865, when 802 vessels entered and imports reached about $13 million against $2.7 million of exports. Tea, sugar and tobacco went out, while cotton goods, rice and opium came in. Steam services linked Hong Kong, Swatow, Amoy and Foochow, giving this small community extensive commercial connections. The chart predates the hybrid architecture that later transformed Gulangyu. Dennys used Captain Richard Collinson’s China Pilot for navigation; the chart probably reflects that hydrographic tradition, although its precise source remains unidentified. 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Its numbered and lettered key identifies Government House, the Anglican and Roman Catholic cathedrals, Central Prison, Pedder’s Wharf clock tower, the Naval Yard, Jardine Matheson’s premises and the newly established Mint. At the eastern, left-hand end, a dotted street grid extends into Causeway Bay beside the Mint, apparently showing a projected layout for reclaimed land. Dennys records that the Mint’s own site required the bay to be filled. Happy Valley’s racecourse occupies former wet cultivation, while blue water, green open ground and pink buildings distinguish harbour, hills and city. The colony had 125,594 inhabitants in 1865, and over one million tons of shipping entered its free port in 1864. Much of this waterfront now lies inland behind later reclamation. Dennys’s 1867 plan appears to adapt official property and street surveys maintained from 1860. 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Japan’s complex multi-metallic currency posed practical difficulties for foreign merchants and travellers. Mexican and other foreign dollars circulated in treaty settlements but became less useful beyond them; Dennys treated the itziboo as the everyday standard and recorded a three-boo piece introduced for transactions with foreigners. The opening to overseas trade exposed a severe mismatch between Japanese and international gold–silver values, prompting bullion movements, repeated recoinage and unstable exchange. This 1867 engraving appeared just after the 1866 tariff settlement reduced duties to five per cent, capturing the monetary pressures accompanying Japan’s opening. An exceptionally scarce plate: our research located no other separate dealer or auction record.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54020020371803,"sku":"P-8-007070","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-8-007070a.jpg?v=1788980449"},{"product_id":"plan-of-shanghae-shanghai-city-foreign-concessions-dennys-1867-old-map-p-8-007061","title":"Plan of Shanghae—Shanghai city \u0026 foreign concessions—Dennys 1867 old map","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'Plan of Shanghae'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eA plan of Shanghai showing the walled Chinese city beside French, English and American settlements along Soochow Creek and the Woosung or Huangpu River. Racecourse, merchant and naval anchorages, foundry and steam works stand close to cotton fields, orchards and farmland now absorbed by central Shanghai. Opened under the Treaty of Nanking in 1842, Shanghai received its British consul in 1843. The British settlement occupied the land between Yangkingpang and Soochow Creek, with the French concession south and American Hongkew north. British and American municipalities united in 1863, although the map retains their separate labels. The Taiping crisis brought refugees and rapid building, followed by property contraction as refugees departed. Dennys’s 1867 plan captures Shanghai becoming the shipping and financial centre of the Yangtze system, concentrating tea, silk and cotton exports and distributing foreign manufactures inland by steam. 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It identifies the Custom House, Chinese Guild, English and Roman Catholic churches, foreign consulates and Bellevue Hotel. Customs facilities, merchant frontage, diplomatic compounds and accommodation show how foreign commerce and daily life occupied the waterfront. Nagasaki opened to general foreign trade in 1859 under the Ansei treaties, after two centuries in which Dutch commerce had been confined to Dejima. The map preserves that older enclave beside the multinational settlement replacing its exclusive role. By 1867 Dennys described growing trade in tea, silk, coal, vegetable wax and marine produce, while the foreign community remained small enough to map almost building by building. 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The American settlement lies across the creek and the French concession beyond Yangkingpang. These proposals record the engineering of a waterfront originally developed on marshland. Foreign ratepayers organised roads, drainage, bridges, policing and lighting, while the Huangpu towing path became the Bund, lined with mercantile premises and landing places. British and American municipalities united in 1863, making “British settlement” in the title a survival from the formative years. Published in 1867, the plan shows infrastructure catching up with Shanghai’s growth as an outlet for Yangtze tea and silk and an entrepôt for imports. Dennys’s plan appears to adapt Shanghai Municipal Council surveys of 1864–66, with projected works and Pootung information. 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Severely damaged by Taiping forces in 1853, the city revived after opening to foreign trade in March 1861. Merchants expected Jiangxi and Anhui tea to reach this second Yangtze treaty port through Poyang Lake. Dennys described a British settlement roughly 500 yards by 250, divided by a central road and cross-road into four blocks of seven lots, with a Bund, timber revetment and landing jetties. By 1866 only twenty to twenty-five foreigners lived there, with eight British houses and three American firms. Tea was effectively the sole foreign export, but the site lay above the Poyang outlet and restrictions on lake steam towage frustrated expectations. Nevertheless, 1866 saw the first sailing vessel load tea directly for London. 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The latter probably represents Benten Cape Battery, begun in 1856 and completed in 1863. Opened to American vessels in 1854 and wider treaty commerce in 1859, Hakodadi served whalers and northern shipping. Coal and lead were available; exports included hides, deer horn, seaweed and other marine produce. Dennys’s 1867 account describes reclaimed plots largely unoccupied, foreigners living in adapted Japanese houses and no regular European settlement; even a chance mail ship’s arrival was an event. British, American, French and Russian consular presences and a Russian Orthodox church nevertheless gave this commercially modest port international strategic importance. 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Since opening in 1859, Yokohama had become the chief outlet for raw silk and tea and the principal meeting point for the shogunate, foreign ministers, merchants and warships. The canal defined and helped control the foreign quarter, where trade, diplomacy, accommodation and entertainment clustered around the landings. A printed note specifies that the buildings shown pre-date the catastrophic fire, adding that reconstruction was expected to preserve the street layout. Issued in 1867 during rebuilding and the final Tokugawa crisis, the plan preserves a precisely dated view of the first settlement immediately before destruction. 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Yeddo, Yokohama, Miako, Osaca, Nagasaki and Hakodadi appear with the principal straits. The 1858 commercial treaties brought Kanagawa\/Yokohama, Nagasaki and Hakodadi into regular foreign trade. In 1867 Dennys identified these as the only three Japanese ports with substantially occupied foreign settlements; travel beyond prescribed treaty limits remained restricted. The chart therefore records the limited access through which foreign merchants and travellers encountered Japan during the Bakumatsu crisis, only months before the shogunate surrendered power. 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It marks the Mediterranean and Red Sea, Cape of Good Hope and the crossing between Aspinwall and Panama, two years before the Suez Canal opened and decades before the Panama Canal. Published in 1867, the year Pacific Mail inaugurated regular San Francisco–Yokohama–Hongkong services, it records how ocean routes and railway crossings connected the treaty ports with global mail and passenger networks. Dennys calculated fifty-four days from England to Hongkong via the Atlantic, Panama railway and Pacific. His transport information drew on P. \u0026amp; O. and Messageries Impériales schedules, with information assembled for Pacific Mail and Alfred Holt. 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The British Consulate stands opposite the Salt Gate in the North Bank foreign quarter, across the water from the Chinese city. Ningpo was one of five ports opened by the Treaty of Nanking in 1842, but Shanghai’s stronger capital, shipping and inland communications drew away much of Zhejiang’s silk and tea trade. Dennys’s 1867 plan records the aftermath of the Taiping occupation in 1861 and refugee movement in 1862, when Chinese streets expanded on the North Bank under foreign naval protection. Daily steam services linked Ningpo and Shanghai by 1865; green tea, particularly for America, and silk remained the principal export prospects. 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Across the water stands Acunora (Akunoura) Steam Factory, a Dutch-assisted shogunal engineering works preceding the Mitsubishi Nagasaki shipyard. Nagasaki opened to general foreign trade in 1859 after centuries of restricted European contact. Dennys described a settlement with a half-mile frontage and bund, consulates, churches and merchant houses, exporting tea, silk, coal, vegetable wax and marine products, with growing direct trade to London. Imports included manufactured goods and metals. The Russian concession served principally as a naval sanitarium and housed no mercantile firms. Dutch engineers supervised Japanese artisans at the steam factory, repairing machinery for the shogunate’s modernising fleet. The plan records treaty-port commerce alongside early Japanese industrial development in the final year of Tokugawa government. 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It plots towns, stopping places, the overland road and navigation details, including “three feet at low water”. Dennys’s 1867 map reduces Sheet 3 of the Admiralty’s Pei-Ho survey, made during the Second Opium War in 1860 by Lieutenant-Colonel Garnet Wolseley, assisted by Lieutenant R. Harrison, R.E. Tientsin opened to foreign trade in 1860; its position at the Peiho–Grand Canal junction connected it with Zhili, Shandong, Henan, Shanxi and Shaanxi. The port handled imported cottons, woollens and opium, alongside domestic tea, grain, skins and Mongolian produce. By 1865 most British shipping arrived by steam from Shanghai or Hong Kong. The 1858–60 treaties also made this a diplomatic route to permanent foreign legations in Peking. Dennys recommended four days by boat to Tungchow, then thirteen miles by cart or horse, with passports linking consul and legation. 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The Dutch East India Company established the fortress on Tayouan sandbank from 1624 to control trade with China and Japan. Koxinga captured it after the siege of 1661–62, ending Dutch rule in Taiwan. Earthquakes, reuse and abandonment subsequently reduced it to part of the keep and broken outer walls. Yet the ruins remained essential to shipping: Taiwan-fu’s harbour had silted until the city lay five miles inland, and mariners used the fort’s conspicuous banyan tree as a landfall for Anping roadstead. Later silting joined the former island to the mainland; restoration and reconstruction created today’s Anping Old Fort. The plan preserves the site before these interventions. Dennys drew on Robert Swinhoe’s observations of Formosa; the draughtsman is unnamed. 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The “Old Factory Site” marks the Thirteen Factories destroyed in 1856, while the “Shamien Site” records the relocation of foreign trade after the Arrow War and Anglo-French occupation of 1857–61. Selected in 1859, Shamien’s mudflats became an artificial concession island divided between Britain and France; British lots were auctioned in 1861 and the Consulate erected in 1865. Dennys recorded foreign trade falling from $34.6 million in 1860 to $21.4 million in 1865 as Shanghai and the Yangtze ports expanded. His 1867 plan updates Daniel Vrooman’s circa-1855 manuscript survey, made using Chinese assistants and converts who paced and described streets barred to foreigners. Separate examples are scarce: our research located one dealer offering and two 2010 records apparently relating to one further sheet. This copy has extensive losses and splitting, brittle, flaking paper and old rice-paper repairs no longer adhering; its severely compromised condition is reflected in the price.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54020020896091,"sku":"P-8-007052","price":640.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-8-007052a.jpg?v=1788980449"},{"product_id":"plan-of-yedo-bay-tokyo-waterfront-batteries-legations-dennys-1867-old-map-p-8-007074","title":"Plan of Yedo Bay… Tokyo waterfront, batteries \u0026 legations—Dennys 1867 old map","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'Plan of Yedo Bay. 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The 1858 treaties named Kanagawa, but its shallow water hampered cargo handling and its position on the Tokai-do placed foreigners in a sensitive corridor. The shogunate instead prepared the more easily controlled Yokohama site across the water. Despite diplomatic objections, it became eastern Japan’s principal centre of European trade. Within eight years, fields, marsh and fishing settlement became a canal-bounded town sustained by silk and tea exports. Camps and the naval yard record the armed tension surrounding foreign residence; the shallow waterfront still required cargo transfer by barge. Published in 1867, the plan captures these arrangements during the final year of Tokugawa rule. 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Provincial boundaries and washes make Qing administrative geography readily legible, while the marked ports turn the map into a commercial index: Canton, Amoy, Foochow, Ningpo and Shanghai had been opened by the Treaty of Nanking in 1842, and the treaties of 1858–60 greatly widened the network and the rights of foreign merchants and diplomats. Published only two years after the defeat of the Taiping forces at Nanking, it captures a moment when coastal and Yangtze trade was being reorganised around steamship services and the foreign-administered Imperial Maritime Customs. 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