Plan of the Concessions Tientsin.
This plan was drawn for Crow's "Handbook for China" in 1933. It depicts a city map or plan of the foreign concessions in Tianjin (Tientsin), China. The map is b...
Place & Date: Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore, 1933
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2020
[Original Chinese advertising poster for Donggong Business School]
This poster, an advertisement from the 1930s for Donggong Business School depicts a pretty woman holding a beautiful fan and wearing jewelry. It shows the rise of Western...
Place & Date: Shanghai, 1934
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2020
A Map and History of Peiping; formerly known as Peking; capital of provinces, princedoms and kingdoms since 1121 B.C. . .
The uncommon second edition of this very decorative and informative pictorial map of Beijing and surrounding areas whimsically illustrates the Forbidden City, essential e...
Place & Date: The Peiyang Press, Ltd. Tientsin-Peiping, 1936
[Map of the Current Situation in East Asia].
Uncommon ephemeral map showing areas occupied by the Japanese, Chinese, and Soviet in the Far East at the outbreak of the Second World War. A tank-shaped insert provides ...
Place & Date: Osaka, 1937
Selling price: $1250
Sold in 2010
Grand Map of Eastern China and Manchukuo.
Spectacular scroll map of eastern China and the puppet state of Manchukuo. Published by the Tokyo Electric Company Limited (Tōkyō Denki Kabushiki Kaisha...
Place & Date: Tokyo, 1937
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2012
New China Map.
Very large and detailed map of China (1:6,000,000) printed in Shanghai, June 27th 1938 by JIN-SHIN GEOGRAPHICAL INSTITUTE.The title and place names in Chinese and Engli...
- $900 / ≈ €842
Place & Date: Shanghai, June 27th 1938
[No title : Map of China with US air bases]
BONUS Map depicting China, Taiwan, part of Japan and Philippines in lower right corner. With a key to US air bases in China. Upper right : Enlargement of original map dra...
Place & Date: New York , Life Magazine, 1944
Selling price: $235
Sold in 2017
Plan of Shanghai - Sheet 1
An exceptionally fine and very detailed map of Shanghai, drawn up by the US Army in 1945 by the Geographical Section of the General Staff, War Office.Originally made in 1...
Place & Date: Washington, 1945
Selling price: $1150
Sold in 2017
A new map of shanghai published by the Jihsin geographical institute.
Rare town plan of Shanghai published in China, printed in English and Chinese, with an inset of the surrounds of Shanghai and a legend.color printed map, overall size 470...
Place & Date: Shanghay, 1946
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2016
Hong Kong
A detailed interesting map in full original lithographic color. The map shows Hong Kong (In red) with Lantau Island and the tip of China an inset map shows Hong Kong’s ...
Place & Date: London, 1948
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2016
Key Map of Hong Kong Relative to Canton and Macao.
A nice folded map of Hong Kong and the surrounding areas. Produced by the British Crown Lands Survey Office just after WWII. Physical features are shown by contour. Railw...
Place & Date: Hong Kong, 1948
Map of the Liberated Regions in China.
Fine sample of a map with a political character. Rare map depicting areas held by the Communists during the Chinese Revolution up to 1st July, 1949.More about cartographi...
Place & Date: Beijing, 1949
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2012
Beijing Yiheyuan Wanshoushan Niaokan.
Rare bird's-eye view of the Summer Palace in Beijing overlooking Lake Kunming and Longevity Hill by guohua painter, Tao Yiqing, who is well known for sketching scenery al...
Place & Date: Beijing, 1954
Selling price: $65
Sold in 2009
Hong Kong.
Decorative poster advertising flights to Hong Kong made by Georges Mathieu. The poster is published outside his series of 15 composed of posters of Greece, Israel, German...
Place & Date: Paris, 1967
Selling price: $850
Sold in 2021
Hong Kong.
Decorative poster advertising flights to Hong Kong made by Georges Mathieu. The poster is one of a series of 15 composed of posters of Greece, Israel, Germany, Great Bri...
Place & Date: Paris, 1967
Schematic Map of Chinese Railway Routes.
A very interesting map of Chinese rail lines extending to the northernmost region of Heilongjiang and to Hainan Island in the south. Rail lines indicate the way to Urumqi...
Place & Date: Shaanxi, 1974
Selling price: $190
Sold in 2021
(Mao. Title in Chinese : Our great leader Chairman Mao and his close comrade Lin Biao.)
Mao zhu xi Chinese communism propaganda poster showing Mao Zedong[a] (1893 – 1976), commonly known as Chairman Mao.Published by Xinhua News agency, which was founded in...
Place & Date: Beijing, 1976
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2018
(Mao. Title in Chinese : 'Chairman Mao Zedong and his close friend comrade Lin Biao reviewing the cultural revolutionary army'.)
Mao zhu xi Chinese communism propaganda poster showing Mao Zedong[a] (1893 – 1976), commonly known as Chairman Mao.Published by Xinhua News agency, which was founded in...
Place & Date: Beijing, 1976
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2018
(Mao. Title in Chinese 'Chairman Mao and his close combat comrade Lin Biao and comrade Zhou Enlai )
Mao zhu xi Chinese communism propaganda poster showing Mao Zedong[a] (1893 – 1976), commonly known as Chairman Mao.Published by Xinhua News agency, which was founded in...
Place & Date: Beijing, 1976
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2018
China
Pictorial map by the Italian artist Andrea Pistacchi.
Place & Date: Italy, ca. 1980
Selling price: $230
Sold in 2020
Map of the Imperialist Division of China
Unusual, large silkscreened map of China based on the serio-comic map drawn in 1899 by Tse Tsan-tai, Chinese patriot and co-founder of Hong Kong's South China Morning Po...
Place & Date: China, C. 1960-1980
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2023
The Situation in the Far East. (時局圖)
An unusual rendering of Tse's "Situation in the Far East". Tse Tsan-tai (1872-1939), a Chinese patriot, drew the original political cartoon in Hong Kong in 1899...
Place & Date: China, n.d. but ca. 1980/1990
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2020
Map of Tsingtao.
A street map of the city of Tsingtao, published by George G. Telberg's International Bookstore.Litho printed in blue and yellow. Includes all the city's main landmarks: t...
Place & Date: Tsingtao, ca. 1930's
Selling price: $95
Sold in 2019