(JAPAN) Ino Tadataka (after) Kokugun Zenzu (Complete Atlas o

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(JAPAN.) Ino Tadataka (after). Kokugun Zenzu (Complete Atlas of Japan.) 75 double-page color woodblock maps. 2 volumes. Small 4to format, 11x7 1/2 inches, original stitched yellow wrappers with printed title labels, fairly worn; moderate thumb soiling. Japan, Tenpo 8 (1837)

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Comprehensive atlas of regional Japanese maps based on the cartography of Ino Tadataka, who spent 17 years surveying the country on foot in the early nineteenth century.

WITH: A bound collection of 34 manuscript double-page regional maps similar in style to the Kokugun Zenzu. 8vo format, 10 1/2x7 1/2 inches, stitched blue paper wrappers, moderate worming. Circa mid-nineteenth century.