J: Shoroku tanshun 書簏蟫雋 Thought-Provoking Bookworms in the Bamboo Trunk Full of Books

by Jiweng 李濟翁 Li, Can 蕭參, Xiao, Jiru 陳繼儒

$7,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

First edition

42; 32 folding leaves. Two vols. 8vo, orig. semi-stiff wrappers rubbed , orig. block-printed title labels on upper covers both labels partly defective , new stitching. Kyoto: Takemura Shinbei, 1698. First edition to be printed in Japan of this collection of Chinese literary texts, with the Preface of Isshiki Tokei or Maeda Tokei, 1673-1744 , the Kyoto Confucian scholar who served the Yamashiro yodo fiefdom lord Noriyuki Ishikawa. The book is printed

• Binding: Wrappers

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