Jacot-Guillarmod, Charles (sold)
Charles Jacot-Guillarmod (1868 – August 14, 1925) was a Swiss topographical engineer active in the late 19th and early 20th century. Charles was born in Le Chaux-de-Fonds, in the Canton of Neuchatel, Switzerland. He attended the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETHZ), where he acquired a degree in Topographical Engineering. After graduating served the Swiss Federal Topographical Bureau from 1890 – 1914, contributed significantly to the Topographical Atlas of Switzerland. He was dismissed from his government topographical posted in 1914. Independent of a paid post he turned his attentions to his interested in high alpine cartography, producing two topographical sketches of Himalayan peaks (K2 and Kanchenjunga) based upon photographs taken by his cousin, the famed mountaineer Jules Jacot-Guillarmod. From 1916 to 1922 he relocated to Beijing where he taught geodesy and topography at the Chinese Army Survey School. There, he was also contracted to compile the 1919 second edition of the China Postal Atlas. When the Chinese government could no longer pay him, he returned to Switzerland in 1923 where he compiled a large scale topographic map of Mount Olympus. His final work was a large scale map of Mount Everest commissioned by the Royal Geographical Society, London, based upon the surveying achievements of a British expedition.
Rare 2nd edition (1st Beijing edition) of the official China Postal Atlas.
Postal Atlas of China. / China postal album, showing the postal establishments and postal routes in each province.
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A scarce example of the 1919 second edition of the official Chinese Postal Atlas. Compiled by Charles Jacot-Guillarmod, this atlas contains 47 maps, including an index, covering all of Chinese in considerable detail. Most of the maps are presented on a standard ... (more details)
Postal infrastructure as a reflection of China's modernization.
江蘇 / Kiangsu.
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This is a map of Jiangsu (Kiangsu) Province from the 1933 edition of The Postal Atlas of China (中華郵政輿圖), compiled by Charles Jacot-Guillarmod. It highlights the evolving postal infrastructure of the region, reflecting a broader modernization drive by the Nanjing government. (more details)
Postal infrastructure in the most developed region of China.
江蘇 南區 / Kiangsu - South Section.
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This is a map of southern Jiangsu (Kiangsu) Province from the 1933 edition of The Postal Atlas of China (中華郵政輿圖), compiled by Charles Jacot-Guillarmod. It illustrates the evolving postal infrastructure of the region, reflecting a broader modernization drive by the Nanjing government. (more details)
Rare, incredibly detailed, trilingual 1936 edition of the China Postal Atlas.
China Postal Atlas Showing the Postal Establishments and Postal Routes in Each Province.
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A scarce example of the 1936 edition of the official Chinese Postal Atlas. Compiled by Charles Jacot-Guillarmod, this atlas contains 31 maps, including an index, covering all of China in considerable detail. Most of the maps are presented on a standard projected ... (more details)