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(JAPAN.) Ino Tadataka (after). Kokugun Zenzu (Complete Atlas of Japan.)
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Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
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Typeset: (JAPAN.) Ino Tadataka (after). Kokugun Zenzu (Complete Atlas of Japan.) 75 double-page color woodblock maps. 2 volumes. Small 4to format, 11X7¾ inches, original stitched yellow wrappers, a bit worn and without printed title labels; small points of wormtrack but plates clean with strong fresh colors.-Japan, Tenpo 8 (1837)
Footnote: Comprehensive atlas of regional Japanese maps based on the cartography of Ino Tadataka, who spent 17 years surveying the country on foot in the early nineteenth century.