Wanguo tu [World Map] & Wukou Yanhai Shuilu Quantu [Complete Map of Waterways of Five Coastal Estuaries]. China, Kangxi period, 1687.

Manuscript map of China’s east coast, and world map, ink and color on paper, approximately 295 x 6800 mm, that is about 22 feet in length, mounted as a handscroll with silk inner wrappings on both ends, a title strip on the exterior reading Haikou Quantu (Complete Map of Sea Ports) and empty pink mica-flecked frontispiece, roller, housed in a wooden box. Title before each map, text in Chinese, some modern English annotation written in pencil. Seas colored in pale green. Three seals of the map production supervisor along the upper edge. (Inner wrapping and frontispiece are detached, light staining and creasing, some tears along the margins, orange paper borders slightly chipping.)

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Please note that this lot is subject to an import tariff. The amount of the import tariff due is a percentage of the final hammer price plus buyer's premium. The buyer should contact Post Sale Services prior to the sale to determine the estimated amount of the import tariff. If the buyer instructs Christie's to arrange shipping of the lot to a foreign address the buyer will not be required to pay the import tariff, but the shipment may be delayed while awaiting approval to export from the local government. If the buyer instructs Christie's to arrange shipping of the lot to a domestic address, if the buyer collects the property in person, or if the buyer arranges their own shipping (whether domestically or internationally), the buyer will be required to pay the import tariff. For the purpose of calculating sales tax, if applicable, the import tariff will be added to the final hammer price plus buyer's premium and sales tax will be collected as per The Buyer's Premium and Taxes section of the Conditions of Sale.

This scroll has been redated to the 19th century, Jiaqing period. It depicts the barbette at Kowloon which was established in 1810.

此圖繪製年份應在十九世紀，因圖中已標注於1810年自東龍洲移至九龍寨的炮臺。此外，美國國會圖書館所藏兩張《海疆洋界形勢全圖》（1787-1801）及一張《七省沿海圖》（1881）、大英圖書館所藏《海疆洋界形勢全圖》與本圖均相近。