Antique Map-MAP-JAPAN-GIAPPONE-Bellin-Prevost-1760

This print shows a very attractive map of Japan, oriented to the right.

Made by Jacques Nicolas Bellin the elder after Prevost.

Medium: engraving on hand laid (verge) paper. Watermark: yes.

Sheet size: 33.5 x 27 cm (13.19 x 10.63 inch). Image size: 31 x 21.5 cm. (12.2 x 8.46 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Folds as published. Brown stains. Remains of pencil writing. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

MAP-JAPAN-ASIA-ISLANDS | RB-A8-28

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

This attractive print was published in the Italian edition of Prevost’s L’Histoire Generale des Voyages, 1760.

Biography engraver: Jacques Nicolas Bellin the elder (1703-1772).