Jun 07, 2018 - Sale 2481

Sale 2481 - Lot 262

Price Realized: $ 3,250
?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 colored woodblock maps. 2 volumes. Small 4to format, 10 1/2x7 1/2 inches, original sewn wrappers with manuscript titles on upper covers, light wear; small worm track in margin of second volume, but generally nice. Japan, Tenpo 8 (1837)

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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.