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A woodblock printed map of the world
A coloured map showing the world globe titled Chikyu bankoku sankai yochi zenzusetsu, Map of the world that shows all countries, mountains and rivers, originally designed by the famous geographer Nagakubo Sekisui (1717-1801), that explains for the first time to the Japanese the phenomena of the equator, the poles and the tropics, not dated, originally published between 1773 and 1796 in Osaka, probably a later printing - good impression, colour and condition, the map is in two separate sheets, split in two halves
37.3 x 48.4cm., 36.3 x 48.4cm.
A coloured map showing the world globe titled Chikyu bankoku sankai yochi zenzusetsu, Map of the world that shows all countries, mountains and rivers, originally designed by the famous geographer Nagakubo Sekisui (1717-1801), that explains for the first time to the Japanese the phenomena of the equator, the poles and the tropics, not dated, originally published between 1773 and 1796 in Osaka, probably a later printing - good impression, colour and condition, the map is in two separate sheets, split in two halves
37.3 x 48.4cm., 36.3 x 48.4cm.
Literature
Beans, List of Japanese maps of the Tokugawa Era, p. 24
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