Jul 09, 2020 - Sale 2540

Sale 2540 - Lot 227

Price Realized: $ 938
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(WORLD.) Bankoku Seizu. Hand-colored engraved folding map of the world. Two sheets joined, 24x34 inches overall, folding into yellow self-wrappers with printed paper label; light wear. Japan, Meiji 19 (1886)

Additional Details

Finely detailed world map adorned with a top banner of international flags and a series of vignette views at the lower border representing the Ganges River, Versailles, Peking, Sydney, Vladivostok, Rome, Amsterdam, Berlin, Washington D.C., Paris, and London.