A LIST OF JAPANESE MAPS OF THE TOKUGAWA ERA. [A Four Volume Set When Complete]
BEANS, George H.
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Jenkintown 1958, Tall Tree Library. Supplement B ONLY,a tall folio, red cloth,66p.,index, bibliography,7 b.w. map photos, a bit of damp to lower right corner,else a bright,firm,clean & sharp copy. *RARE FIRST & ONLY LIMITED EDITION 100 COPIES* . *** *** *** . . . ISSUED IN A VERY SMALL EDITION 0F 100-150 COPIES . . . ONE OF THE MOST ILLUSIVE & COMPREHENSIVE . . . JAPANESE CARTOGRAPHICAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES . . * An excellent reference for a large number of Japanese woodblock-printed maps and atlas. . With index in each volume, bibliography, many b.w. photographs of maps. . Each volume was issued in a FIRST & ONLY LIMITED EDITION per below, the complete work was issued serially issued in four volumes: . List 150 copies [Volume 1] Published date: 1951 Supplement A 150 copies [ " 2] " 1955 Supplement B 100 copies [ " 3] " 1958 Supplement C 100 copies [ " 4] " 1963 . * ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEXT: This is one of the best English language works referring to the collection now housed in British Columbia, covering the Beans Collection or Tall Tree Collection of Japanese woodblock printed maps. Each volume is arranged in date or chronological order, with useful index. Valuable for identifying maps, in English, with Romanized entries. This work covers dated maps and is a very reliable reference work. Essential for any student or map collector. Any part is highly difficult to find and the complete set of four volumes are always exceptionally rare. The text also gives the Romanized title. . * The link to University of British Columbia library holdings is: www.library.ubc.ca/spcoll/beans-html#Holdings, where more details on the collection and these maps can be found. . *** ALWAYS RARE ! Because this work was printed in a small edition, each part always remains very R A R E ! The first two volumes were issued in 150 copis, last two volumes are especially R A R E being issued in 100 only copies. . *** Color photos are posted to our website. . *** BIBLIOGRAPHY: . IMAGO MUNDI: vol.18 [1964], p.90 * Yolande O'Donoghue, article: Map-makers of Old Japan, in GEOGRAPHICAL MAGAZINE: vol.47, #1 [Oct.1974]), pp.40-47. * Ristow: GUIDE, #33; * With a copy of the U.B.C. "GEORGE BEANS COLLECTION OF JAPANESE PAPS OF THE TOKUGAWA PERIOD, description of the collection, several maps of Japan, and an important addenda to Beans, not found in any of the Beans published works, in all this consists of 22 pages in all, again an important and useful supplement to the whole. * The link to University of British Columbia library holdings is: www.library.ubc.ca/spcoll/beans-html#Holdings, where more details on the collection and these maps can be found. . *. Seller Inventory # 85011107
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