Lot 1509
Kishida Ginko. Jutei gosai chugai hoyo zenzu, large folding lithographed map of China and Japan, backed on linen, eight inset plans, text in Japanese, a few tears along folds, occasionally with some loss, original cloth folio, worn, 143cm x 205cm, Tokyo: Rakuzendo, 1906
Kishida Ginko (1833-1905) was a Japanese businessman and entrepreneur who pioneered trade with China in the Meiji period. His interests included war journalism, medicine retail and publishing.