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Includes: Tasei Wkan Nenkaiki by Shigenobu Tsurumine. 122 pages. With 3 double-page color woodcut maps, tables and diagrams in the text. 7x4½. 1858. * Shogaku Tenmon Shinan by Nobutake Baba. 2 volumes. 46; 42 pp. With about 9 illustrations, including 2-page map of the world. 8¾x6. Together, 2 works in 3 volumes. Wrappers stitched in Japanese style.

Curious works on Astronomy, Geography and the Calendar, in Japanese. The first work contains three color maps, of the World (by Sadahide), Japan and China; the second includes a 2-page map of the world in classical Japanese style, as well as two representations of the solar system, and what look to be astronomical instuments.