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    Wu bei zhi Wood block print. "Juan 240" shows Zheng He's voyager route from Nanjing, passing through South East Asia, Indian Ocean, Red Sea, all the way to Persian Gulf. Early Qing Dynasty ed., prefaced Tianqi 1 (1621). Juan (chapter) 240 is one of 80 volumes in 8 cases (30 x 19 cm.). "Wu bei zhi juan er bai si shi." Available also through the Library of...
    • Contributor: Mao, Yuanyi
    • Date: 1644

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    Guang yu tu : er juan
    廣輿圖 : 二卷 /     Woodblock print. Shows the Great Wall of China, the defense sturctures of the military towns along the border and the coast. Also shows the number of soldiers and horses stationed in the border towns, and ethnic groups in the border area.. Enlarged Universal terrestrial atlas of China. Covers Yellow River, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Southeast Asia, and the administrative divisions of China in Ming Dynasty....
    • Contributor: Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) - Zhu, Siben - Luo, Hongxian
    • Date: 1558-01-01
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    Sangoku tsūran yochi rotei zenzu
    三国通覧輿地路程全圖 /     Shows Japan, Korea, coast of China, Ryūkyū Islands, Ezo/Hokkaido, Sakhalin/Karafuto and northern islands. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Title from title piece mounted on cover. Worm holes in the map. Coordinates in Japanese on map of Sangoku tsūron zusetsu. "Chōsen, Ryūkyū narabini Karafuto ... " Kotenseki, v. 1, p. 391 (under Sangoku tsūron zusetsu, author, Hayashi Shihei, [suppl.] chizu, completed Tenmei 5 [1785]; Sangoku tsūran yochi...
    • Contributor: Hayashi, Shihei
    • Date: 1785-01-01
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    Ezo kōkyō yochi zenzu
    蝦夷闔境輿地全圖 / | /     Wood-block print. Relief shown pictorially. Japanese. Includes text. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 651/1; 651/2; 651/3
    • Contributor: Utagawa, Sadahide - Fujita, Junsai
    • Date: 1854-01-01
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    Tōdo rekidai shūgun enkaku chizu.
    唐土歷代州郡沿革地圖 | Mito Chō Sekisui Sensei kōzu | Kokon enkaku chizu     Title from label on case. Maps within single border (31.7 x 17.8 cm). On double leaves, oriental style (fukurotoji). Minor insect damage. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Description based on online resource. Preface by 沈琬綸, dated 乾隆五十四年 [1789]; preface by 力原萬, dated 寬政元年己酉 [1789]. map [3]. 周職方氏圖 - map 4. 春秋列國圖 - map 5. 戰國七雄地圖 - map...
    • Contributor: Tachihara, Kyōsho - Nagakubo, Sekisui - Shen, Wanlun - Japanese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1789-01-01
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    Yŏch'udo.
    輿墜圖. | Tongguk yŏjido     Korean (Hanmun). Cover title. In case. Rice paper maps attached to cardboard leaves. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. December 7, 1938 538662. Estimated date based on the presence, on the map of China, of 湖廣省, a jurisdiction which ceased to be in the year 1644. Stamp on first leaf: 官崎 藏書. 東國 八道 大總啚 - 京畿道 -...
    • Contributor: Korean Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1600-01-01
    • Resource: kwŏn 1 - 15 pages