Catalogue LII: “The Finest Harbour in the World”- The Knoblauch Collection
Almost exactly 200 years after Captain Cook embarked on this third voyage of discovery, Beat Knoblauch arrived in Australia, and bought his first antique print of Sydney. Now, nearly 50 years, and hundreds and hundreds of images of Sydney later, Daniel Crouch Rare Books presents “The Finest Harbour in the World”: The Knoblauch Collection of Printed Views of Sydney 1788–1938.
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Bellin’s map of the vicinity of Canton
The first official Qing dynasty map to depict the entire island of Taiwan, including its eastern territories
Large plan of 1930s Hong Kong showing the cyclone scale 


