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(JAPAN.) Daifuku Setsuyo. Extensive text containing a profusion of woodblock maps and prints (many double-page, several color-printed). Small 4to format, 10x7 inches, well-worn original wrappers with later stitching; light corner thumbing, small worm track to the first ten leaves. Japan, Bunkyu 3 (1862)
Japanese atlas and encyclopedia including an attractive double-page color-printed map of the Pacific Ocean which features a large Dutch trading ship between the Americas and China, Japan, southeast Asia, and Australia which is shown connected to Antarctica. Also of interest are maps of Japan, Edo, Osaka, Kyoto, 32 portraits of foreign peoples (both real and imaginary), sections on cooking, history, Noh theater, games, fortune telling, armor, weaponry and a great deal more.
