[Chosŏn chido] Historic map, Library of Congress

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 Library of Congress, p. 15, McCune #2
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
LC Copy imperfect: Some of the woodblock printing are not well done, with smudges on the edges, map on China very worn with holes and torn places, water stains along upper edge of scroll.