Seiken Gengyo

大日本海陸全圖 [Dai nihon kairiku zenzu] =Complete naval map of Japan

Touto, Tokyo: Ebisuya Shoushichi, 1864 (Bunkyuu 4). Large folding map; 28.25" x 38.5"; hand-colored woodblock print; cities, districts, and castle towns, waterways, and distances from port to port; original stiff paper boards, title label on covers; the paper is clean but extremely brittle, resulting in significant tears along the folds. A revision of a map by Nagakubo Sekisui (the first Japanese cartographer to employ lines of longitude and latitude), and notable for its inclusion of the disputed Dokdo/Takeshima islands. Item #53083

Price: $200.00