Bookplate title pasted to verso: Pl. XXI. Victoria (Hong-Kong), Singapore. Appears in Quatrième livraison. Drafted by École nationale des ponts et chaussées and published by Imprimerie nationale. This is an excelent copy of a Franch map on two major British Far East Colony.
The maps show Victoria City (Hong Kong), Hong Kong, and Singapore in 1888. Maps feature topography, railways, streets, bridges, drainage, docks, islands, and soundings, with depths given in meters. Relief is shown with hachures. Each includes a bar scale and compass rose, with the north oriented toward the top of the sheet. Descriptive text throughout. Lithograph in black, white, and blue. With inset map: Singapore (1888).