Revised Travel Road Map in Japan, antique map of Japan North America

Revised Travel Road Map in Japan, antique map of Japan North AmericaA very interesting and long folding travel map of Japan. This is a woodblock print circa late 18th century. The map is titled, Kaisei nihon dch kteikimeaning "Revised Travel Road Map in Japan." By the mid Edo period in the 18th century, it was common tradition for commoners to pay visits for famous shrines, at least once in their lifetime, and thus there was a huge demand for travel goods, including precise maps like yours. There seemed to have been

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La Perouse built a monument to the lost men on the island in the center of the bay

… Reissued June 1883

A striking and highly detailed fine unusual first French edition of La Perouse's 1787 important superb copper engraved earliest obtainable view showing the shipwreck of two small boats that were part of the La Perouse Expedition

This stunning map is truly unique in the unusual pastel hues used to color the geographical regions

this map shows railroads

and a note by an area called "The Quicksands" that reads "an extensive and very dangerous bank

washed and backed with new linen

Rocky-cliffs

concentrates on the inset of the West

Reduced from the Original Survey of Major H

Lithographed map