Map of Singapore Town.
[?Singapore,
c.1945].
Lithographic map, original folds flattened, with small repairs at folds, discrete ink mss.
305 by 510mm (12 by 20 inches).
11843
notes:
A commercial map of Singapore, overprinted with a red ink stamp of 'Fraser & Neave Ltd', a Singaporean printing and brewing company, suggesting it was owned by someone with connections to the company or possibly produced for it. Fraser and Neave had published a handbook to Hong Kong with an accompanying map in 1907, although their focus had turned to brewing by this point. The establishments shown date the map to the 1940s, possibly after the Japanese occupation of Singapor...
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provenance:
Rare final state – materially different
“The capabilities of this most important possession to the British interest are too numerous for the undersigned here to set forth” (Peel)
First issue of the first commercially available map to show Dutch discoveries along the northern coastline of Australia
The first map to focus on “Australia”
With the addition of the “Isles de Cooke”
Coronelli’s map of Asia identifying Australia with Marco Polo’s “Lochac”
“The least known to Europe of any of the Eastern Countries” 

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