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Auction 147, Lot 626

"Carte de l'Empire du Japon", Bellin, Jacques Nicolas

Subject: Japan

Period: 1752 (dated)

Publication: Prevost's Histoire Generale des Voyages

Color: Black & White

Size:
12.3 x 8.5 inches
31.2 x 21.6 cm
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This is a reduced Dutch version of Bellin's influential map made for Jesuit Father Pierre-Francois-Xavier de Charlevoix's Histoire du Japon. Japan is presented on the Kaempfer/Scheuchzer model with several corrections to the coastlines, and individual provinces are delineated via engraved line. The Mer de Coree is shown to the west. The decorative rococo-style title cartouche includes two distance scales. Dutch title below the map image.

References: cf. Walter OAG #101.

Condition: A

Issued folding with one very faint damp stain.

Estimate: $300 - $375

Sold for: $220

Closed on 11/20/2013

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