Engraved double-hemisphere world map, hand-colored in outline. On sheet with text on either side, overall 34.5x130 cm, 13½x51¼"), folding into modern boards. Western-syle map of the world produced in Japan a decade before the Perry Expedition opened the island nation once and for all to the West. There is text on either side of the map - the map itself takes up a little over a third of the sheet. The title ih Japanese is 新製輿地全圖. The mapmaker in Japanese is 箕作省吾.
Engraved double-hemisphere world map, hand-colored in outline. On sheet with text on either side, overall 34.5x130 cm, 13½x51¼"), folding into modern boards. Western-syle map of the world produced in Japan a decade before the Perry Expedition opened the island nation once and for all to the West. There is text on either side of the map - the map itself takes up a little over a third of the sheet. The title ih Japanese is 新製輿地全圖. The mapmaker in Japanese is 箕作省吾.
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