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Tadakato, Ino.
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Description
- Dai Nihon Enkai Yochi Zenzu [Coastal Atlas of Japan]. Tokyo, 1838
- No
2 volumes, 4to (280 x 180mm.), 75 double-page colour-printed wood block maps, stitched, yellow wrappers, paper labels pasted on covers, housed in early leather pouch decorated with Samurai arrow heads and feathers and the Japanese crest of crossed feathers, vol.1 with some marginal worming, only occasionally affecting maps, some soiling in lower margins, front pastedown torn, vol.2 with worm-holes throughout, often touching printed area
Catalogue Note
Rare and important coastal atlas of Japan by Tadataka Ino (1745-1818) and considered the first geographical survey of Japan.