This map of Japan is based on the Blancus/Moreira type, which Sanson included in his small atlas of Asia. Sanson acknowledges the work of Cardim and German physician Bernardus Varenius in the title cartouche. Embellished with a strapwork cartouche and a drape-style distance scale. This is the second state, with plate number "13" engraved at top right.

This map was deaccessioned from the Universitat und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt in 2010.

See also lot 789 for Lutz Walter's Japan - A Cartographic Vision - European Printed Maps from the Early 16th to the 19th Century that describes this map.

References: Hubbard #26.2; Pastoureau, SANSON III D; Walter #34.

Condition: A

A crisp impression with contemporary outline color in the map and later color in the cartouche. There are library stamps in the top corners of the sheet on verso, confined to the blank margins.