Plan of the British settlement at Shanghai—Bund & city plan—Dennys 1867 map
£820
SKU: P-8-007062
'Plan of the British settlement at Shanghai.'
A plan of Shanghai’s commercial centre between Soochow Creek and the Huangpu River, identifying the British Consulate, racecourse, proposed recreation ground and embankment works dated 1864 and 1865. The American settlement lies across the creek and the French concession beyond Yangkingpang. These proposals record the engineering of a waterfront originally developed on marshland. Foreign ratepayers organised roads, drainage, bridges, policing and lighting, while the Huangpu towing path became the Bund, lined with mercantile premises and landing places. British and American municipalities united in 1863, making “British settlement” in the title a survival from the formative years. Published in 1867, the plan shows infrastructure catching up with Shanghai’s growth as an outlet for Yangtze tea and silk and an entrepôt for imports. Dennys’s plan appears to adapt Shanghai Municipal Council surveys of 1864–66, with projected works and Pootung information. Exceptionally scarce as a separate map: our research traced only one other market appearance, in 2010.
Size 24 x 33 cm | 9.5 x 13.0 inches
Date Published: 1867
Type: Antique woodblock-printed settlement city plan in red
Author: Mayers, Dennys & King
Publication: The Treaty Ports of China and Japan
Condition: Good |
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