[Rarebooks] OFFER: FIRST MODERN JAPANESE GEOGRAPHY.

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YUKICHI, FUKUZAWA : SEKAI KUNIZUKUSHI FUKUZAWA YUKICHI YAKUJUTSU. 6 
numbered volumes; MEIJI 2 (1869).publisher: Okadaya Kashichi [n.p.] 
Maps printed in color, including world maps based on Western sources, 
in Mercator Projection. OCLC notes, Yale, Cornell, UC Berkeley, 
Waseda U. Study of world geography including architecture, people's 
customs and dress. Several folding colored maps. Although it follows 
in time, a series of  largely invented works, this is based on 
Western texts and geographical knowledge and is in the realm of real 
geography. One chapter at the beginning of the last volume, discusses 
compasses, projection systems and the use of the globe[with 
illustrations]. Original wrappers and title slips. Wraps worn, the 
first volume wraps with some signs of damp, which are very lightly 
continued within volume I; OW VG. $1250.00


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