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Auction 191, Lot 691

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

Subject: Japan

Period: 1752 (dated)

Publication: Prevost's Historische Beschryving de Reizen...

Color: Black & White

Size:
12.2 x 8.3 inches
31 x 21.1 cm
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This is a Dutch version of Bellin's influential map made for Jesuit Father Pierre-Francois-Xavier de Charlevoix's Histoire du Japon, published in 1758. 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. Engraved by J. van Schley.

References: Walter #OAG-107; cf. Hubbard #109.

Condition: A

Issued folding with one very faint dampstain at top and light foxing in the blank margins..

Estimate: $200 - $230

Sold for: $100

Closed on 2/8/2023

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