"Carta dell' Impero del Giappone", Bellin, Jacques Nicolas

This is a reduced version of Bellin's influential map made for Jesuit Father Pierre-Francois-Xavier de Charlevoix's Histoire du Japon. Japan is presented basically 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. This map was published in an Italian edition of Prevost's Histoire Generale des Voyages.

References: Walter OAG #105.

Condition: A

Issued folding, now flattened on watermarked paper with a few faint spots along the right fold.