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**Cartographic Style and Technique**: Münster’s map is not only a geographical document but also an artistic one

It synthesizes classical geography with information from sixteenth-century exploration and travel accounts

A fine Japanese geographical fan showing a double hemisphere map of the

Geographical Fan, Double Hemisphere World Map texas31623 and Gerard van SpaendonckGeographical Fan, Double Hemisphere World Map Japan: ca 1870s 2 wood engraved leaves (5 4 8 inches in depth), printed in black, over 30 bamboo rods (9 4 8 inches in length), held together by a brass spindle, verso decorated with a map of Japan and view of a shrine.