Hizen Nagasaki-zu

1802. NAGASAKI. Hizen Nagasaki-zu. Woodcut map of Nagasaki. Coloured woodcut map with outer wrappers, the front illustrated. 620 x 860 mm, folded in a new chitsu case. Nagasaki: n.p., [1802]. A masterpiece of the woodblock printer's art. This splendid and boldly coloured map of Nagasaki includes a distance chart and a table of navigable routes to Nagasaki. The map also depicts the lively maritime life in the Nagasaki harbour. The map also depicts the island of Dejima, the only place in which foreign traders were allowed to conduct business with Japan during the Edo period. Extremely rare with OCLC listing only the copies at Princeton, LC and Stanford in the U.S.