World map–Yamaji Yukitaka A Revised Comprehensive Map of All Countries (Jutei bankoku zenzu). Tokyo: Daigaku Nanko [The Southern University College; presently Tokyo University], 1871 山路諧孝 重訂萬國全圖 明治時代 1065 x 1900mm., hand-coloured woodblock world map, dated Meiji yonen kanoto hitsuji shoka (Early summer of the 8th year of the sexagenary cycle, 1871), folding into later cloth folding case, short split at fold, a few spots The rare and striking twin-hemisphere world map with Japan at its centre. Based on an 1810 map prepared by the Japanese court astronomer Kageyasu Takahashi (1785-1829), who was later famously imprisoned for exchanging maps of the Japanese archipelago with Philipp Franz Balthasar von Siebold (1796-1866). The revised cartograph became a significant reference for subsequent maps in Japan and was republished in 1855 by Yamaji Yukitaka (1777-1861), and again in 1871 as seen in this lot. For an example of the 1855 edition of this map in the collection of the National Diet Library, Japan, object number 000007431329, go to: https://dl.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/1286200Condition reportCondition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate The lot is sold in the condition it is in at the time of sale. The
World map–Yamaji Yukitaka A Revised Comprehensive Map of All Countries (Jutei bankoku zenzu). Tokyo: Daigaku Nanko [The Southern University College; presently Tokyo University], 1871 山路諧孝 重訂萬國全圖 明治時代 1065 x 1900mm., hand-coloured woodblock world map, dated Meiji yonen kanoto hitsuji shoka (Early summer of the 8th year of the sexagenary cycle, 1871), folding into later cloth folding case, short split at fold, a few spots The rare and striking twin-hemisphere world map with Japan at its centre. Based on an 1810 map prepared by the Japanese court astronomer Kageyasu Takahashi (1785-1829), who was later famously imprisoned for exchanging maps of the Japanese archipelago with Philipp Franz Balthasar von Siebold (1796-1866). The revised cartograph became a significant reference for subsequent maps in Japan and was republished in 1855 by Yamaji Yukitaka (1777-1861), and again in 1871 as seen in this lot. For an example of the 1855 edition of this map in the collection of the National Diet Library, Japan, object number 000007431329, go to: https://dl.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/1286200Condition reportCondition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate The lot is sold in the condition it is in at the time of sale. The
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