Plan of the city of Canton—large Guangzhou city plan—Dennys 1867 old map
£640
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'Plan of the city of Canton.'
A large plan of Canton (Guangzhou) showing the walled Manchu and Chinese city, gates, temples, suburbs and Pearl River waterways. 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.
Size 48 x 69 cm | 18.5 x 27.0 inches
Date Published: 1867
Type: Antique woodblock-printed city plan in red
Author: Mayers, Dennys & King
Publication: The Treaty Ports of China and Japan
Condition: Good |
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