JAPANESE (Late 19th Century) - Lilies 8 Region_New England Mercator's map of Asia

Mercator's map of Asia

one of the period’s outstanding cartographic achievements

Massachusset-s-bay e l'Irochesia

It passes low over the bushes

Paris: 1632

JAPANESE (Late 19th Century) - Lilies 8 Region_New England Mercator's map of AsiaJAPANESE (Late 19th Century) Lilies Woodblock print and finished by hand on pith laid down on heavier stock 17 x 10 sheet Provenance: Nevins Memorial Library, MA Beautiful hand colored woodcuts from a Japanese nursery catalogue produced by the Yokohama Nursery Company for the export market. The company was formed at the end of the nineteenth for the purpose of exporting Japanese plants to the West, capitalizing on the prevailing wave of Japonism. The