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Old chinese map and booklet


ivomd

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The covers are marked 皇朝直省地與全图, which the Library of Congress interprets as "Qing Empire's complete map of all provinces," though there's a slight difference in the title on your copy:

https://www.loc.gov/item/gm71005083/

That doesn't look at all like the city map you actually have; your map is legended, but we'd need a clearer photo to read it well.

Too, the LOC map -- as well as most other versions of this map it seems -- is dated Guangxu Bingshen [1894], while yours is dated Guangxu Gengchen [1880].

As you probably know, Chinese maps are often re-printed, so yours could easily be old in some sense, but not original.

 

This is the sort of thing that new Chinese History Forum could probably discuss.

 

(Add: I see you say you're showing two books: so the map doesn't actually go with the covers?)

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Thanks for your quick answer!

Family was in maritime insurance business in china in the late 1800s and they brought this back, first owner so I'm 100% sure they are not reprints.

Yes you need to view the map separately from the book, my fault. 

Picture 2 and 3 go together. This is a book with about 100 pages. Photo 3 is the first page. Then there are about 30-40 maps of china I assume in, always accompanied by chinese text. I will make some better pictures later today

Thanks

Ivo

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If real, this is a treasure.

 

This one sold for well over US$4,000 in 2009:

 

http://www.zgsd.net/channel2-p_141118.shtml (click small image to enlarge)

 

Again, as with the atlas, there seem to be different printings of this map.

 

(Condition makes a big difference in price, which is why I encourage you to just leave these alone, and let an expert deal with them.)

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Hi,

1 final request for help. I just found a huge map of japan in the lot too. It probably is the size of a small car so very difficult to open and photograph. The outside is made of linnen and has some lettering on; please see last added picture. I'm not sure, is this chinese or japanese?

All the rest of the maps and books are chinese for sure.

Thanks for everything!

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