(JAPAN.) Eidai Setsuyo Tenga Zo. Profusion of woodblock maps and prints (many double-page, approximately 10 color-printed), extensive text. Small 4to format, 10x7 inches, original sewn embossed yellow wrappers with printed paper labels on upper cover; moderate wear, silk spine caps lost; minimal thumbing and scant worm track to the earliest portion. Japan, Bunkyu 4 (1863)
A massive Edo-period Japanese atlas and encyclopedia including two double-page hemispheric world maps, a four-page contiguous map of Japan, a climber's map of Mt. Fuji, and detailed double-page plans of Edo, Osaka, and Kyoto. Japanese history, dress, money, weapons, theater, food and drink, mathematics, games, samurai, and a small Korean dictionary are just a few of the cultural aspects recorded in this enormous and remarkable volume.
