NIPPON GAISHI JIRUI TAIZEN: KOSEI JO GAIZU: HISTORICAL DICTIONARY & GEOGRAPHICAL

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Kyoto 1876, Bunmei Sho Rozo. Stiff stitched yellow wrs.,very good, small part of cover spine vol. 1, chipped, 2 vol. set, vol. 1 text, vol. 2 atlas with 51 copper-etched maps, 4 fold outs, 8.5 x 11.7 cm., Japanese text, both very good. R A R E . * Woodblock printed text on hand-made mulberry paper, printed on double folded leaves. . The atlas is copper etched, has 47 double-page maps, each is 16.8 x 11.7 cm., the large foldouts are 30 x 15.7 cm. . The sketch maps are nicely drawn, showing each place or location in much detail, with ovals citing the name of every village or town. Rivers, mountains and castles nicely drawn in. . The maps show major political, battles and historical place names. This kind of educational material was likely supervised or issued under the auspices of the Mombusho [Japanese Ministry of Education] in an effort to teach Japanese their local historical and geographical history. *** . CONDITION: Text volume has some minimal chipping and loss to the pink title page, but all characters are quite legible, else both volumes clean, solid, text volume has a few small illustrations. * Color scans are posted to our website. . *. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 22038201

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