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This detailed chart appears to be the original first issue uncorrected drawn from a survey by Captain W. Thornton Bate of the Royal Navy in 1857. It details the Canton River approaches at a fascinating period in the regions history. Hong Kong had only been founded in 1841. Chang ‘China in European Maps’ pl. 99.
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Chu-Kiang or Canton River Sheet III From Tiger Island to the Second Bar Pagoda
London, 1859
970 x 620 mm. A couple of small foxmarks, otherwise fine condition
Stock number: 3605
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