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Auction: 21042 - The Opium Wars Collection
Lot: 195

Opium Wars
The First Opium War
Map of the Battles
1842 (second edition) "A Map to Illustrate the War in China compiled from Surveys and Sketches of British Officers and Other Information" by James Wyld, 30 x 13.5 inches, hand coloured. The map has an unusual east facing orientation and shows the east coast of China from Canton and Macao to Beijing and Nanking. There are five insets

Attack of Canton under the command to Sir Hugh Gough, 25 May 1841

Plan of the city of Ting-hai in Chusan

Plan of the city of Peking

Attack on the forts in the Canton River

The harbour and island of Amoy.

James Wyld was a geographer, map-seller, and member of the British Parliament. He is best known for Wyld's Great Globe, a hollow sphere which contained a staircase and elevated platforms, allowing the public to climb and view the surface of the Earth.


1842年(第二版) 1842 年（第二版）“根據英國軍官的調查和草圖和其他信息彙編的中國戰爭地圖”, 作者 James Wyld. 尺寸: 30 x 13.5 英寸, 手繪. 這幅地圖有一個不同尋常的朝東方向, 顯示了從廣州和澳門到北京和南京的中國東海岸. 共有五個插圖: 1841年5月25日在Sir Hugh Gough 指揮下攻擊廣州; 舟山定海規劃圖; 北京城規劃圖; 進攻廣州河上的要塞圖及厦門港及島嶼圖. 脚註:詹姆斯·懷爾德 (James Wyld) 是一位地理學家, 地圖銷售商和英國議會議員. 他最著名的作品是懷爾德的大地球, 這是一個包含樓梯和高架平台的空心球體, 讓公眾可以爬上並觀察地球表面.

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