This is the later version of Wade’s celebrated shooting map of Shanghai first published in 1893.

The map stretches from Tongling to Shanghai east to west and Nanjing to Hangzhou north to south. The focus of the map is on bird shooting with this area being renowned for its variety of fowl. It shows multiple bodies of water with notes on the changing nature of the marshland, depending on level of flooding each year. Areas of “reported good shooting” are marked, together to local high grounds and landmarks. The lower left of the map shows an inset of Ningpo (Ningbo) and its environs.

Differing from its predecessor, the map bears the image of a large pagoda on the upper left. This is an image of the Longhua Temple. The later publishing date, November 1903, is marked just below the title on the upper right.

This particular example of the map bears the bookplate of Clarence Dalrymple Bruce, a career army officer first stationed in China in 1898-1904 in command of the 1st Chinese Regiment. In 1905, he made a journey from Kashmir to Peking on horseback, which he recorded in his book “In the Hoofprints of Marco Polo”. Between 1907-14 he was Commissioner of International Police in Shanghai.

The map bears faint contemporaneous markings of blue lines differentiating water ways and bodies from the surrounding landscape. There are also contemporary pencil markings locating pagodas and landmarks of interest, almost certainly by Bruce.