An interesting map of Japan, after Bellin. Oranmental cartouche at top left . Antonio Zatta was one of the leading cartographers and publishers of the time, and his Atlante Novissimo was one of the most beautifully produced of 18th century atlases. He drew on the work of other cartographers- such ...

Dimensions (W x H): 42 x 33 / 16½ x 13

A beautifully engraved map of Japan. The cartouche shows plants, pots and a parasol. Antonio Zatta was one of the leading cartographers and publishers of the time, and his Atlante Novissimo was one of the most beautifully produced of 18th century atlases. He drew on the work of other ...

Dimensions (W x H): 40 x 32 / 15½ x 12½

Beautiful map of Japan, showing its provinces. The northern island, Hokkaido is not shown - it was not yet known, although there is a land mass shown where it should be, labelled ‘Kamchatka’. Attractive decorative cartouche at upper left. Emmanuel Bowen was one of the leading English mapmakers of ...

Dimensions (W x H): 42 x 35 / 16½ x 14

From the Voyages of La Pérouse who set sail from France in 1785 to continue the discoveries of Captain Cook. He was shipwrecked in 1788 but his narrative, maps, and views survived and were published in 1797. An attractive map of the regions North of Japan withs two inset maps: Extrait de la carte ...

Dimensions (W x H): 67.5 x 49 / 26½ x 19½

An attractive map with with the colouring emphasizing the different districts of Japan. The map is very similar to the map of the same name shown in Walter’s Japan (cat81, p197) for Charlevoix’s Histoire du Japon, but the ornamental cartouche is different, the map itself, and the area covered by ...

Dimensions (W x H): 31 x 21 / 12 x 8½

Handsome map of Japan and Korea, with note on the ‘Corean Archipelago’; in a note in lower right hand corner, quoting from ‘Captain Hall’s Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Korea’; Thomson, draws in a non-existent archipelago of islands to the west of Korea. Apart from this detail, the map ...

Dimensions (W x H): 50 x 57 / 19½ x 22½

In 1604 Hondius bought the plates of Gerard Mercator’s atlas, added about 40 maps to Mercator’s original number, and from 1606 published enlarged editions in many languages still under Mercator’s name, but with his own name as publisher. These atlases have become known as the Mercator/Hondius ...

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 13.5 / 7½ x 5½

Attractive map of Japan, not showing Jesso. Ornamental cartouche at top left.

Dimensions (W x H): 31 x 21.5 / 12 x 8½

A highly detailed and informative map with inset of Nagasaki at bottom right. Along the top from left to right, a scene of Japanese Noblemen and Fishermen, a view of the Port of Simoneseke, and a scene of Japanese Women of the Higher and Lower Class.

Dimensions (W x H): 30.5 x 45 / 12 x 17½

A very attractive mid 19th century map of Japan with an inset at lower right of the port of Nagasaki. Above the map there is a view of the ‘Port of Simoneseke, flanked on one side by a picture of Japanese ‘Noblemen and Fishermen’, on the other a picture of ‘Japanese Women of the Higher and Lower ...

Dimensions (W x H): 30.5 x 36.5 / 12 x 14½

A highly decorative map of Japan and Korea for the period with a vignette of a rural scene in Yedo at upper centre, two smaller vignettes in the lower corners, at left, ‘Coreans’, at lower right, ‘State barge’. The map and vignettes are within an elegant uncoloured border.

Dimensions (W x H): 33 x 26 / 13 x 10

A Highly decorative map for the period with vignettes showing towns and local scenes, the whole enclosed in an elegant border

Dimensions (W x H): 33 x 26 / 13 x 10

A highly decorative map of Japan and Korea for the period with a vignette of a rural scene in Yedo at upper centre, two smaller vignettes in the lower corners, at left, ‘Coreans’, at lower right, ‘State barge’. The map and vignettes are within an elegant uncoloured border.

Dimensions (W x H): 33 x 26 / 13 x 10

A decorative and detailed plate. The main map shows the Japanese Islands and adjacent mainland Asia, including Korea, Manchuria and the Island of Sakhalin. There is an inset map of Nagasaki at lower right. Above the map, and below the title, there are three vignettes- The Port of Simoneke, flanked ...

Dimensions (W x H): 32 x 46.4 / 12½ x 18½

A decorative and detailed plate. The main map shows the Japanese Islands and adjacent mainland Asia, including Korea, Manchuria and the Island of Sakhalin. There is an inset map of Nagasaki at lower right. Above the map, and below the title, there are three vignettes- The Port of Simoneke, flanked ...

Dimensions (W x H): 32 x 46.4 / 12½ x 18½

A fine, detailed map of the islands of Japan. Inset at top left showing a view of Tokyo, further inset at bottom right showing the islands of Kuril which lie off the north east coast of Hokkaido, and the islands of Ryukyu which lie to the south of Japan.

Dimensions (W x H): 31 x 42 / 12 x 16½

Bellin used this attractive plan and others he prepared for Charlevoix, for Prevost’s collection of travel descriptions and various atlas editions.Lutz Walter: Japan, cat 100 p.200.

Dimensions (W x H): 33.5 x 19 / 13 x 7½

A detailed map of Japan with insets of Nagasaki harbour, and the eastern point of the island of Yeso. Scale in right hand margin.

Dimensions (W x H): 31 x 39 / 12 x 15½

Handsome map of Japan with inset maps at lower right of the Kurile and Ryuku Islands, and an inset of Tokyo at top left.

Dimensions (W x H): 31.5 x 44 / 12½ x 17½

Map of Japan showing topographical features, inset maps of Nagasaki and the NW tip of ‘Yeso’(Hokkaido) at top right. Title at lower centre.

Dimensions (W x H): 32 x 39 / 12½ x 15½

A detailed map of Japan compiled by Commodore Perry. Matthew Calbraith Perry (April 10, 1794 – March 4, 1858) was the Commodore of the U.S. Navy who compelled the opening of Japan to the West with the Convention of Kanagawa in 1854.

Dimensions (W x H): 36 x 31 / 14 x 12

Attractive map of Japan with two inserts in the top left corner showing Nagasaki Harbour and Eastern Point of Yeso.

Dimensions (W x H): 32 x 39 / 12½ x 15½

Detailed map of the island. Title at bottom right with scale underneath.

Dimensions (W x H): 25 x 34 / 10 x 13½

A fine map of the Japanese Empire showing the islands of Japan, Taiwan, Korea and the island of Sakhalin

Dimensions (W x H): 41.5 x 54.5 / 16½ x 21½