Sale 2496 - Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books, December 13, 2018
105 105 c ( JAPAN.) Tokyo Zenzu. Engraved color-printed decorative folding map of Tokyo on two sheets joined. 20x27 1 / 2 inches, folding into cloth-backed printed card case; excellent condition with fine, bright colors. Meiji 27 (1894) [800/1,200] Fine map of Tokyo with engraved vignettes including facial portraits of the Emperor and Empress Meiji. The portraits are engraved after photographs by Uchida Kuichi. together with : Albumen prints of Uchida’s full-length portraits of the rulers mounted to a paper scroll, circa 1880. Photographs measure 5 1 / 2 x3 3 / 4 inches each.
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