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Map of the Shooting Districts lying between Hangchow - Nanking - Wuhu and Shanghai
compiled from the latest authorities with numerous additions 1885-5-6, 1898, 1901-2-3-4. By the late Fred Mann... Railways open and projected and the names of principal towns, romanised according to the revised regulations of the Imperial Chinese Post Office, Names in Chinese, Characters in the Madarin Dialect By Helen Mann 1909.
[Shanghai],
1909
Lithograph map, printed in colours, mounted on linen, folding into original blue cloth boards, lettered in gilt to upper cover, minor loss to old folds.
750 by 1200mm. (29.5 by 47.25 inches).
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Large and detailed plan of Shanghai, and surroundings.
The map was produced to aid the consumate gentleman find suitable areas around Shanghai to shoot game. Hence, as well as the labelling of geographical and man-made features, the map is replete with phrases such as "first rate shooting country", "good shooting along these greens", and "rolling hills good shoot".
The map stretches from west to east from modern day Tongling to Shanghai, and north to s...
The map was produced to aid the consumate gentleman find suitable areas around Shanghai to shoot game. Hence, as well as the labelling of geographical and man-made features, the map is replete with phrases such as "first rate shooting country", "good shooting along these greens", and "rolling hills good shoot".
The map stretches from west to east from modern day Tongling to Shanghai, and north to s...
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