![KOREAN MANUSCRIPT ATLAS. [Korea: mid/late 19th-century]. 128 x 95mm. 13 folding manuscript maps, one folding sheet of explanatory text in ink and colours, on indigenous mulberry paper, each map sheet measuring 360 x 360mm. when unfolded, maps partially mounted back to back (a few small holes at folds). Contemporary blue-grey cotton wrappers with manuscript Korean title translated as "Atlas of the East of the Seas."](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2005/CSK/2005_CSK_05622_0176_000(104501).jpg?w=1)
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KOREAN MANUSCRIPT ATLAS. [Korea: mid/late 19th-century]. 128 x 95mm. 13 folding manuscript maps, one folding sheet of explanatory text in ink and colours, on indigenous mulberry paper, each map sheet measuring 360 x 360mm. when unfolded, maps partially mounted back to back (a few small holes at folds). Contemporary blue-grey cotton wrappers with manuscript Korean title translated as "Atlas of the East of the Seas."
The compilation and format of this traditional Korean atlas, or yojido, is typical of the genre, commencing with a circular Buddhistic map of the World, followed by individual maps of the whole of China, Korea and its individual provinces, and ending with stylised maps of Japan and the Ryukus, dating back to Korean models first produced in the late 15th-century.
The compilation and format of this traditional Korean atlas, or yojido, is typical of the genre, commencing with a circular Buddhistic map of the World, followed by individual maps of the whole of China, Korea and its individual provinces, and ending with stylised maps of Japan and the Ryukus, dating back to Korean models first produced in the late 15th-century.
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