map of China, probably a British or American naval intelligence copy, printed title, key and other text in Japanese, all with manuscript translations in English, province names also inscribed in bold black ink, ports and sea routes indicated in red ink, the port of Mokpo, on the south-western tip of the Korean Peninsula marked with a letter 'H', a note centre right identifying this as 'Temporary Base of Jap Main Fleet', the sheet inscribed upper right as 'Highly Confidential', lithographed map on Japan paper, 1310 x 995mm., slight wear and a few short splits on old folds, occasional light spotting, 1902; with Thomas Ferguson's Waterways near Shanghai, Imperial Maritime Customs, 1899-1900, lithographed chart on a scale of 1 inch to a mile, 820 x 1035mm., old folds, some spotting, folding into publisher's printed paper slipcase, 4to, Shanghai, Kelly & Walsh, 1902; also with A Map of China prepared for the China Inland Mission, colour-printed map, 1020 x 870mm., dissected and linen-backed, faint spotting, folding into contemporary cloth slipcase, publisher's label pasted on, bearing owner's inscription of Capt. R.H.V. Buxton, 4to, China Inland Mission, and Edward Stanford, 1911 (3) *** Provenance: once the property of Captain R.H.V. Buxton, R.N., whose photographic archive, held by the Imperial War Museum, includes sections on The Royal Navy on the China Station, 1912-14, and Review of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1912. He was the father of the noted WWII Fleet Air Arm pilot, Sir Jocelyn 'Jocky' Buxton.
map of China, probably a British or American naval intelligence copy, printed title, key and other text in Japanese, all with manuscript translations in English, province names also inscribed in bold black ink, ports and sea routes indicated in red ink, the port of Mokpo, on the south-western tip of the Korean Peninsula marked with a letter 'H', a note centre right identifying this as 'Temporary Base of Jap Main Fleet', the sheet inscribed upper right as 'Highly Confidential', lithographed map on Japan paper, 1310 x 995mm., slight wear and a few short splits on old folds, occasional light spotting, 1902; with Thomas Ferguson's Waterways near Shanghai, Imperial Maritime Customs, 1899-1900, lithographed chart on a scale of 1 inch to a mile, 820 x 1035mm., old folds, some spotting, folding into publisher's printed paper slipcase, 4to, Shanghai, Kelly & Walsh, 1902; also with A Map of China prepared for the China Inland Mission, colour-printed map, 1020 x 870mm., dissected and linen-backed, faint spotting, folding into contemporary cloth slipcase, publisher's label pasted on, bearing owner's inscription of Capt. R.H.V. Buxton, 4to, China Inland Mission, and Edward Stanford, 1911 (3) *** Provenance: once the property of Captain R.H.V. Buxton, R.N., whose photographic archive, held by the Imperial War Museum, includes sections on The Royal Navy on the China Station, 1912-14, and Review of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1912. He was the father of the noted WWII Fleet Air Arm pilot, Sir Jocelyn 'Jocky' Buxton.
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