Jun 03, 2021 - Sale 2571

Sale 2571 - Lot 35

Unsold
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(JAPAN -- NIKKO.) Group of 3 nineteenth-century tourist guides to the mountain resort town north of Tokyo. Japan, vd

Additional Details

Guide Map of Nikkosan, Japan. Beautifully engraved perspective map with pictorial vignettes and insets of carriage roads and steamship lines. 2 sheets joined, 20x29 inches overall; very fine, folding into original printed paper outer envelope. Meiji 17 (1884).

Color-printed woodblock plan of Nikko. 12 3/4x17 1/4 inches; very fine, folding into original printed paper outer envelope. Circa 1870.

Nikko Meisai Ki. Guidebook with 4 attractive double-page color-printed woodblock illustrations. 8vo format, 6 1/4x4 1/2 inches, tan paper wrappers with printed paper title label; overall very nice with only minor wear. Meiji 14 (1881).