{"product_id":"first-sketch-of-the-settlement-of-shanghai-circa-1843-anonymous-1921-map-p-6-111509","title":"\"First sketch of the settlement\" of Shanghai, circa 1843. Anonymous 1921 map","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'First sketch of the settlement'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eA compact plan of the embryonic British settlement, with its early street grid, boundary stones and enclosing creeks. The likeliest prototype is one of the unpublished boundary plans connected with Alcock’s negotiations and the 1851 notification of limits. Those official maps were later said to have burned in 1853. The underlying scheme nonetheless goes back to Balfour, with practical surveying probably by Daniel Brooke Robertson.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52705791803739,"sku":"P-6-111509","price":41.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-6-111509a.jpg?v=1775046214","url":"https:\/\/www.antiquemapsandprints.com\/products\/first-sketch-of-the-settlement-of-shanghai-circa-1843-anonymous-1921-map-p-6-111509","provider":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}