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Manuscript map of the Bay of Nagasaki.
An extremely rare manuscript chart in brown ink and wash color on a printed sheet of paper with a system of rhumblines and latitude scales. This chart shows the Bay of Na...
$50000 / ≈ €46786
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1750
[ LANDSKROON ]. Oranda Fune no zu [= Depiction of a Dutch Ship].
A very large and extremely detailed Japanese drawing on rice paper of a Dutch ship at the artificial island Deshima, the VOC's outpost in Nagasaki harbour. In the drawing...
$30000 / ≈ €28072
Place & Date: Japan, Kansei 4, 2nd month, 9th day, 30 March? 1792
SETTSU MEISHO ZUE. Illustrations of famous places in Settsu.
Settsu Meisho Zue was printed in two series of 8 and 4 volumes. The principal illustrator was Takehara Shunchosai, but many illustrations in the 4 volumes supplement are ...
$3500 / ≈ €3275
Place & Date: Osaka, Yanagiwara Kibei, Kansei 8-10 or 1796-1798