JAPANESE (Late 19th Century) - Lilies 6 State_Mississippi including being the first to

including being the first to show the Sargasso Sea (Mer de Sargasse)

while this was again no Northwest Passage

of the port city of Angra on Terceira Island in the Azores is one of the earliest known European depictions of the Atlantic archipelago's strategic harbors

His maps were widely used and distributed

Tulipa Silvestris

JAPANESE (Late 19th Century) - Lilies 6 State_Mississippi including being the first toJAPANESE (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