Map of the Yang-tze-kiang—Yangtze River, China—Grand Canal—Dennys 1867 old
£400
SKU
'Map of the Yang-tze-kiang.'
A 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.
Size 10 x 16 cm | 3.5 x 6.5 inches
Date Published: 1867
Type: Antique woodblock-printed river and regional map in red
Author: Mayers, Dennys & King
Publication: The Treaty Ports of China and Japan
Condition: Good |
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