Jun 06, 2019 - Sale 2512

Sale 2512 - Lot 108

Price Realized: $ 715
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(JAPAN.) Tokyo Zenzu. Engraved color-printed decorative folding map of Tokyo on two sheets joined. 20x27 1/2 inches, folding into cloth-backed printed card case; excellent condition with fine, bright colors. Meiji 27 (1894)

Additional Details

Fine map of Tokyo with engraved vignettes including facial portraits of the Emperor and Empress Meiji. The portraits are engraved after photographs by Uchida Kuichi.

together with: Albumen prints of Uchida's full-length portraits of the rulers mounted to a paper scroll, circa 1880. Photographs measure 5 1/2x3 3/4 inches each.