Shandong Zhili Henan San Sheng Huanghe Quan Tu Complete Map Of The Yellow River Area In The Three

by Hongzhang Li Dacheng Wu Others

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First edition

Many lithographic maps, drawn to the scale of 1:36,000. 34 ; 25 ; 34 ; 37 ; 58 unnumbered folding leaves. Five vols. Large 4to, orig. wrappers with printed title-slip on upper cover, new stitching worn . Shanghai: Hongwen shuju, 1890. First edition of “the first map covering a larger area for which surveying was done by Chinese using Western methods” Amelung, “New Maps for the Modernizing State,” p. 697 , and “a high point in the modern

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