A New and Accurate Map of the EMPIRE of JAPAN laid down from the Memoirs of the Portuguese and the Dutch, and particularly from the Jesuit missionaries.

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 the eighteenth-century, and was unusual in that he was cartographer to both the French and English Royal Courts.

Fine condition. Good margins. The second state with ‘42’ in the lower left corner.