Dec 17, 2020 - Sale 2555

Sale 2555 - Lot 279

Price Realized: $ 2,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,800 - $ 2,200
(JAPAN.) Ino Tadataka (after). Kokugun Zenzu (Complete Atlas of Japan.) 75 double-page color woodblock maps. 2 volumes. Small 4to format, 11X7 3/4 inches, original stitched yellow wrappers with consolidated silk endcaps and printed title slips to upper covers, minor wear. Japan, Tenpo 8 (1837)

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A beautifully preserved example of this rare comprehensive atlas of Japanese regional maps based on the cartography of Ino Tadataka, who spent 17 years surveying the country on foot in the early nineteenth century.