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Plan of Kyoto from the first edition of ‘Histoire du Japon’
Plan de la Ville de Meaco
[Paris,
chez Julien-Michel Gandouin, Quai de Conti aux Trois Vertus,
1736].
Engraved plan.
251 by 364mm. (10 by 14.25 inches).
15900
notes:
A plan of Kyoto (Meaco) from the first edition of 'Histoire du Japon' by Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix.
De Charlevoix (1682-1761) was a French Jesuit missionary and explorer. On his first journey he spent four years in Canada, and his knowledge of the area led the French government to commission him to search for a river routs to the Pacific Ocean in 1720. He explored the Great Lakes and part of the Mississippi, but was shipwrecked near the Bahamas and ret...
De Charlevoix (1682-1761) was a French Jesuit missionary and explorer. On his first journey he spent four years in Canada, and his knowledge of the area led the French government to commission him to search for a river routs to the Pacific Ocean in 1720. He explored the Great Lakes and part of the Mississippi, but was shipwrecked near the Bahamas and ret...
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