Port of Tai-wan-foo / Port of Takao—Tainan & Kaohsiung, Taiwan—Dennys 1867 map
£300
SKU: P-8-007058
'Port of Tai-wan-foo. // Port of Takao.'
Two harbour plans on one sheet compare Taiwan-fu (Tainan) and Takao (Kaohsiung) as foreign trade began. The upper maps Anping, Fort Zeelandia, sandbanks and the inland city; the lower identifies Ape’s Hill, Saracen’s Head and Island, the village and a mineral spring around Takao’s lagoon. Silting forced Taiwan-fu’s shipping to anchor three miles offshore, with cargo crossing dangerous surf and Fort Zeelandia serving as a sea-mark. Takao offered a sheltered lagoon, although its entrance bar constrained shipping. Both ports arose from the 1858 treaty settlement; Dennys dates Takao’s opening to 1864. Despite having only a few European houses and stores, it recorded 153 foreign-vessel entries totalling 27,648 tons in 1865. Sugar, turmeric, sesame and rice were exported; cotton goods, woollens and opium imported. Drawing on Robert Swinhoe’s reports, Dennys’s 1867 maps predate modern reclamation around Tainan and the former Taijiang lagoon and Kaohsiung’s development into a major engineered harbour. Exceptionally scarce: our research located no other separate dealer or auction record for this map.
Size 20 x 16 cm | 7.5 x 6.5 inches
Date Published: 1867
Type: Two antique woodblock-printed harbour plans on one original sheet
Author: Mayers, Dennys & King
Publication: The Treaty Ports of China and Japan
Condition: Good |
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