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Mr. Philip D. Burden
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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. Much of this region is now built up. Hong Kong had only been founded in 1841. Chang ‘China in European Maps’ pl. 100.
HYDROGRAPHIC OFFICE OF THE ADMIRALTY
Chu-Kiang or Canton River Sheet IV From the Second Bar Pagoda to Whampoa Island
London, 1859
62 x 96 cms., fine condition
Stock number: 3606
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