{"product_id":"tientsin-to-tungchow-tianjin-tongzhou-beijing-peiho-river-route-dennys-1867-map-p-8-007066","title":"Tientsin to Tungchow—Tianjin–Tongzhou, Beijing—Peiho river route—Dennys 1867 map","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e[Tientsin to Tungchow]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eA red-printed strip map following the Peiho or Hai River from Tientsin to Tungchow, the river port for Peking. 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. Exceptionally scarce in this reduced form: our research located no other separate dealer or auction record for Dennys’s map.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54020020830555,"sku":"P-8-007066","price":320.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-8-007066a.jpg?v=1788980450","url":"https:\/\/www.antiquemapsandprints.com\/fr\/products\/tientsin-to-tungchow-tianjin-tongzhou-beijing-peiho-river-route-dennys-1867-map-p-8-007066","provider":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}