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Plan de la Ville Dozaka et de son Chateau
[Paris,
chez Julien-Michel Gandouin, Quai de Conti aux Trois Vertus,
1736].
Engraved plan with original hand colour.
257 by 380mm. (10 by 15 inches).
15897
notes:
A plan of Osaka 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 returned to...
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 returned to...
