"Nieuwe Kaart van't Keizerryk Japan, na de Nieuste Ontdekkingen", Tirion, Isaac
Subject: Japan
Period: 1740 (circa)
Publication: Nieuwe en Beknopte Hand-Atlas
Color: Hand Color
Size:
12.5 x 10.9 inches
31.8 x 27.7 cm
This handsome map of Japan is based on the Kaempfer/Scheuchzer type. In this map Tirion makes a correction to his previous map of Japan by incorporating the more correct northern tip of Honshu and the southern tip of Hokkaido based on Kaempfer's manuscript, or perhaps taken from an inset on Scheuchzer's map. The route of the Dutch expedition between Nagasaki and Edo is shown.
References: Hubbard #87; Shirley (BL Atlases) T.TIR-2a; Walter #79 & OAG-91.
Condition: A
Full contemporary color on a bright sheet with wide margins and a Strasbourg lily watermark. There is an ink mark in the left blank margin.
