Big-Game Hunting in and around Shanghai

Big-Game Hunting in and around Shanghai.

Title Map of the Country around Shanghai compiled from the best authorities with numerous additions from actual survey.

Author WATERS, Thomas J.

Publication place Shanghai.

Publication date 1880.

Lithographed map, dissected and laid down on linen in 24 sections, with contemporary hand-colour in full; preserved in original publisher's green cloth slipcase.

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Compiled by Thomas Waters (1842-1898), "expressly for Sportsmen" (slipcase label). Waters was an Irish civil engineer and architect who carved out a successful early career in Japan, designing the Imperial Mint in Osaka and the headquarters for the Imperial Japanese Army. He worked briefly in Shanghai in the 1880s, before going out to Colorado to join his brothers in silver and gold mining.

This map also appeared in cyanotype, probably originally drawn up as part of Waters' bid for the commission to construct a new waterworks in Shanghai. Waters was a strong contender in the competition, as he had experience in the field: he was partially responsible for the construction of Japan's first sewer system.

Rare: OCLC locates only two institutional examples, those in the BnF and University of Chicago.

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