Manuscript On Paper Entitled Todatsu Kiko Travels In The Region Of Eastern Tartary

by Rinzo Mamiya Author Teisuke Murakami

$22,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

17 hand-drawn & hand-colored illus., mostly full-page. 57; 34 folding leaves. Three parts kan & appendix furoku 附錄 in two vols. 8vo 252 x 180 mm.; 265 x 190 mm. , orig. wrappers, orig. manuscript title-slips on upper covers. Japan : 1814. A very rare manuscript account, beautifully illustrated and with the extremely rare appendix, of the two expeditions in 1808 and 1809 of Mamiya Rinzō 1775-1844 , hydraulic engineer, cartographer, and explorer,

• Binding: Wrappers

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