Sale 2496 - Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books, December 13, 2018

218 218 218 c   (WORLD.) Shochu Bankoku Zu. Double- hemispheric color woodblock map of the world. 13 1 / 4 x20 inches sheet size, folding into blue paper self-wrappers with printed paper label; delightfully retaining its original printed paper outer envelope; minor abrasions to outer wrappers, else extremely fine. Japan, Kaei 6 (1853) [1,500/2,500] 219 c   (WORLD.) Sekai Bankoku Nihon Yori Kaijo Risu Ojo Jimbutsu Zu. Color woodblock world map on an oval projection with insets of international figures. 13 3 / 4 x19 1 / 2 inches sheet size, wide margins; folded; overall very nice. Japan, circa 1850 [1,500/2,500] A beautiful Japanese world map with portraits of foreign peoples including North American, South American, Dutch, Indian, Chinese and Korean. Other figures represent fictional lands such as a country populated only by women and folklore-inspired depictions of a giant, a cyclops and miniature people. 220 c   (WORLD CULTURES.) Westermann, Georg. Offset-color printed pictorial wall map of the world. Two sheets joined, map size 51x71 inches with upper and lower margins extended to classroom rollers; soft creases, a few stray ballpoint pen markings at lower margin, Denoyer-Geppert labels. Germany, circa 1960 [300/500]