Cartographer:
RAPKIN, J
Artist:
H Warren
Engraver:
J H Kernot (Illustrations) J Rapkin (Map)
Title:
Japan & Corea.
Stock Code:
7442
Method:
Steel engraving
Publisher:
John Tallis & Company
Colouring:
Original outline colour with later additions
Atlas:
The Illustrated Atlas and Modern History of the World Geographical, Political, Commercial & Statistical.
Size: (W x H):
33cm x 26cm
13 inches x 10 inches
Date:
1851
Price:
£225
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.
Good condition, centrefold has a little browning.