Antique Map of Part of Japan by Bowen (c.1785)

Description: Antique map titled ‘Part of Japan or Nippon'. View of the Coast of Japan when we first saw it: The Hill a bearing West 3 miles distant. London Published by Allexer Hogg at the Kings Arms No. 10 Paternoster Row’. A copper engraved, uncolored map small section of the east coast of Honshu, with an inset projection of the coastline as seen by the James Cook voyage.

Artists and Engravers: Engraver: Thomas Bowen (1732-1790) Publisher: Alexander Hogg.