Dec 06, 2012 - Sale 2297

Sale 2297 - Lot 123

Price Realized: $ 1,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
SCHEUCHZER, JOHANN GASPAR. Imperium Japonicum in Sexaginta et Octo Provincias Divisum. Engraved folding map, 465x540 mm, wide margins; matted. London, 1727
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From Kaempfer's History of Japan and based on the Reland model introduced in 1715. One of the earliest maps to utilize both Roman and Kanji scripts. With two insets, one of Kamchatka and the other picturing southern Hokkaido and northern Honshu. Walter 76A; Campbell 48; Cortazzi, pl. 76.