Map to accompany the Notes on Manchuria by the Rev. Alexander Williamson.
- Softcover
- Map
- Used
Seller: Geographicus Rare Antique Maps, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.Geographicus Rare Antique Maps
AbeBooks seller since November 21, 2024
Condition: Used
US$ 336.00
Quantity: 1 available
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Very good. Exhibits even overall toning and light wear along original fold lines. Bottom right margin extended. Size 10.75 x 13 Inches. This is an 1870 John Murray map of Manchuria, China - a region that within 20 years would become the stage for a global power struggle between Imperial Japan, Qing China, and Tzarist Russia. The map was drawn to accompany a paper written by Reverend Alexander Williamson and published in The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society . Parallel lines trace Williamson's travels through the region. Cities, towns, and villages are labeled throughout, including Mukden (Shenyang). The region's impressive topography leaps off the page, and its extensive river network is well illustrated. Part of the Willow Palisade (labeled here as Barrier of Stakes or Palisade) appears and traverses a southwest-northeast line through the map's center. The Willow Palisade, a system of embankments and ditches planted with willows, was built by the Qing in the late 17th century and separated traditionally Manchu areas from Mongol territory. Alexander Williamson and Manchuria Alexander Williamson (December 5, 1829 - September 1890) was a Scottish Protestant missionary and member of the London Missionary Society, who spent years working, studying, and traveling in China. After attending Glasgow University, where he completed his theological studies, he applied to the London Missionary Society mission to China. Williamson traveled through Manchuria three times in the 1860s. Publication History and Census This map was engraved by Edward Stanton and published by John Murray for the Royal Geographical Society in Volume 39 of The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society in 1870. An example is part of the institutional collection at Princeton University. This map is not cataloged in OCLC. References: Princeton University Library G7822.M2C2 1870 .R6.…
Seller Inventory # Manchuria-murray-1870
Bibliographic details
- Title
- Map to accompany the Notes on Manchuria by the Rev. Alexander Williamson.
- Author
- 1870 Murray Map of Manchuria, China
- Publication year
- 1870
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Seller catalogs
- JAPAN-CHINA-KOREA
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Geographicus Rare Antique Maps was founded in New York, New York, by Kevin James Brown in 1999. We are specialist antiquarians dealing in historic maps from all over the world and in all price ranges. Our enthusiasm, passion, and devotion to scholarship is expressed in our meticulously researched descriptions, among the most detailed and comprehensive available anywhere, for each and every rare map that passes over our desk. This same devotion guides the relationships of honesty and trust we have fostered with our clients, whether through purchasing or selling a rare map, getting an appraisal, or simply calling to discuss antique maps in general. We are happy to assist you no matter whether you are an interior decorator, an institution, an experienced collector, or are just looking for a single antique map. Geographicus is a member of the ABAA (Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America), the ILAB (International League of Antiquarian Booksellers), the New York Map Society, the Washington Map Society, the IMCOS, and the Society for the History of Discoveries. While primarily an internet-based company, we are happy to meet with clients to show our antique maps by appointment at our New York City location.…
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