Map of North Eastern China

A$12,500 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Chief Depot L. Friederichsen Co., Hamburg. St. Petersburg : Geographical Establishment of A. Ilyin, 1900. Second edition. Lithographed map, 121 x 96.5 cms, dissected and laid on linen, in plan green cloth boards with binder s ticket of Kelly Walsh, Shanghai, spine crudely repaired with cloth tape, contemporary inscription inside upper board I. Hsin Railway 1913 , the key including native terms in use at the beginning and end of geographical terms, two small ex-institution wetstamps of the University of Leeds Dept. Of Geography to inside upper board and lower right margin of map, else a fine copy. A large format and highly detailed map of the north eastern provinces of China and the border of Korea by Russia s first consul general to Korea. Karl Ivanovich Weber ( Карл Ива́нович Ве́бер, also known as Carl von Waeber) was a diplomat of the Russian Empire and a personal friend to King Gojong of Korea s Joseon Dynasty. He served as as Russia s first consul general to Korea between 1885 – 1897 after signing the Treaty of Amity and Commerce between Russia and Korea on 25 June 1884. Waeber published the first edition of his Map of North Eastern China in 1893, with this second edition published in 1900, the intervening years seeing a significant rise of the influence of Russia in Korea. Printed and published in St Petersburg by the military cartographer Alexey Afinogenovich Ilyin, and distributed by the Hamburg booksellers and publishers Friederichsen Co. Published in Russia, bound in

• Binding: Hardcover

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