Dec 17, 2019 - Sale 2527

Sale 2527 - Lot 98

Price Realized: $ 812
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(JAPAN -- SCHOOL GEOGRAPHY.) Kaisei Chiri Shoho Ansha No Zu. Large color-printed woodblock pedagogical map with pictorial insets on 4 sheets joined. 28 1/4x39 1/4 inches overall, folding into original embossed yellow self-wrappers with printed paper title label and original string hanging loops, minor wear to covers; small area of vermin damage at lower margin. Japan, Meiji 8 (1875)

Additional Details

Rather fine geography-teaching object from a school classroom of the Meiji period.