Amanogawa soshi or Gingazoshi, but this is wrong Book of the Milky Way

by Tori Ikeda, author, Kiyoharu Hishikawa, artist

$6,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

First edition

Ten double-page & two single-page woodblock color-printed illus.; two-page preface & colophon with color-printed borders, & several leaves with color-printed backgrounds. 14; 13; 11.5 folding leaves. Three vols. 8vo, orig. patterned semi-stiff wrappers, orig. block-printed title labels on upper covers all three a little defective , new stitching. From the colophon: Kyoto et al.: carved by Inoue Jihei for Daimonjiya Tokugoro, 1835. First edition of

• Binding: Wrappers

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