Plan of Shanghae—Shanghai city & foreign concessions—Dennys 1867 old map
£720
SKU: P-8-007061
'Plan of Shanghae'
A 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. Exceptionally scarce: our research located no other separate dealer or auction record for this map.
Size 10 x 17 cm | 3.5 x 6.5 inches
Date Published: 1867
Type: Antique woodblock-printed city and environs plan in red
Author: Mayers, Dennys & King
Publication: The Treaty Ports of China and Japan
Condition: Good |
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