An exceedingly rare English map of Japan by Philip Lea (fl. 1683-1700). It was first published in 1680 to accompany ‘A Collection of Several Relations & Treaties Singular and Curious, of John Baptista Tavernier’, London, 1680. Further editions appeared in 1684 and 1688. In all the map is folded into the book. This example is from an atlas with only a centrefold. It also appears in two of the four known composite atlases known by him. Those of the British Library (Maps.C.45.f.4) and Colonial Williamsburg (Custis atlas). Philip Lea was apprenticed to Robert Morden and was a cartographer, globe, instrument maker, and map seller.Tavernier’s work proved popular on the continent and this English translation followed. The map is engraved by Herman Moll (c.1654-1732) and is one of his earliest works. It is the inset map of Tonquin which had been issued in the French and Dutch editions. Refer Campbell (1967) no. 28; Cordier (1912) 393-4; Cordier (1912-32) 2420-22; Hubbard (2012) no. 46; Pritchard & Taliaferro (2002) p. 352, no. 60; Shirley (2004) T.Lea-1a no. 31; Walter (1994) p. 216, no. 43; Worms & Bayton-Williams (2011).