A detailed map of the environs of Hong Kong
WAR OFFICE.
Hong Kong and the New Territories. Third Edition.
London: The War Office, 1936-49. Colour lithographic map. Sheet 735 x 1000mm.
Loss in edge lower right.
A map of British Hong Kong on a scale of 1:80,000, with heights shown by contours. It was first published in 1936, but this is example comes from the Third Edition, updated using information from arial photographs taken by the Inter-Services Topographic Department in 1943, during the Japanese occupation. This reprint of 1949 dates from the year the Chinese Communist Party completed their takeover of mainland China.
Stock ID : 23217
£2,200
£2,200
A detailed map of the environs of Hong Kong
WAR OFFICE.
Hong Kong and the New Territories. Third Edition.
London: The War Office, 1936-49. Colour lithographic map. Sheet 735 x 1000mm.
Loss in edge lower right.
A map of British Hong Kong on a scale of 1:80,000, with heights shown by contours. It was first published in 1936, but this is example comes from the Third Edition, updated using information from arial photographs taken by the Inter-Services Topographic Department in 1943, during the Japanese occupation. This reprint of 1949 dates from the year the Chinese Communist Party completed their takeover of mainland China.
Stock ID : 23217
£2,200
£2,200