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This is a big political map of the World. It was issued in 1988th in the Soviet Union. It is paper folded map in folder with index-book of place-names - 30 pages. Size unfolded map is 116 cm (46.4 ) x 74 cm (29.6 ) pprox. The folder is slightly shabbied but map is in like new condition.
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Buyer pays fixed $9.00 shipping costs for any country . This item will be shipped to you from Europe (Ukraine) via airmail immediately after payment is fully received and will be arriving within 10-14 business days to your destination.
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If you are not satisfied with the product the refund will be issued if the product is returned and received at Western Bid, Inc. address within 30 days of the purchase date, (not delivery date) and, the product and all packaging, peripheral, support articles and instruction manuals originally included in the sale are returned in a fully resaleable condition as determined by Western Bid, Inc. personnel upon inspection. The customer bears all financial responsibility for all shipping and handling charges incurred both in the sending of product (including all materials as described above) to the customer and the return of product (including all materials as described in article above) to Western Bid, Inc.
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EXTREMELY RARE MAP
OF THE IMPERIAL CITY OF JAPAN
KYOTO
PRINTED 1699 (or before)
BY
Yoshinaga Hayashi
VERY LARGE CITY PLAN PRINTED PRIOR TO THE GREAT FIRE OF 1788
Size (unfolded): about 160 x 120 cm (or about 63 x 47 inches), folds to 24 x 16 cm.
Details: Original hand-coloured woodblock, original blue wrappers with title in Japanese. Printed on native paper.
Condition: Overall very good condition with minor foxing, binding rubbed, other insignificant defects. Old handwritten annotation on the binding stating “Miaco” and crossing “Edo” (please see photos).
Fantastic map of Kyoto, Imperial capital of Japan and the Imperial Family’s residence until 1868. The city was ravaged and destroyed by a great fire in 1788.
This city plan of Kyoto (or Miaco) was printed by Yoshinaga Hayashi in 1699 (or some years before). The first known city plan of Kyoto dates from around 1674. It is particularly interesting for its great detail of the shrines, temples, palaces, principal roads, bridges, and others. It was also used as a guide for tourists or visitors to locate the 250 Shinto shrines and 1600 Buddhist temples.
Hayashi started publishing maps in the late 17th century, namely a map of Tokyo (Edo) in 1680. It continued printing maps until the middle of the 18th century.
Yoshinaga Hayashi was a leading map publisher. The publisher productions are regarded as the finest examples of Japanese cartography of the period. Early maps of Kyoto (prior to ...
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