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Chosŏn chido
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Chosŏn chido

Around the scroll is a piece of heavy modern paper with what may be an account of the atlas written in Sino-Korean. Purchased from Bruce F. Hunt circa 1968. Mr. Hunt had been asked to sell the atlas by a rural church to whom it had been given by one of the members. Title supplied by cataloger. Scroll: 36 x 345 cm. (each of 9 sheets of paper with maps, pasted to the next and then rolled or folded). Annotated catalogue of old Korean atlases and maps in the, p. 15, McCune #2

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Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
Type
map
Sheets
4
Original size
5,878 × 3,840 pixels

Public domain

Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago.

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