Nagasaki mujin or mushin monogatari A Tale of the Nagasaki Mujin

Name: Nagasaki mujin or mushin monogatari A Tale of the Nagasaki Mujin
Price: 6500 USD
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Author: Seiei Nakamura

by Seiei Nakamura

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

First edition

Two double-page & three full-page woodcuts. 14.5 folding leaves pagination irregular but complete . 8vo, orig. patterned orange wrappers a little soiled & rubbed , orig. block-printed title label on upper cover, new stitching. Ushu in today’s Yamagata Prefecture , Naraya Ichibei, 1691. First edition of this very rare work on practical business mathematics and the use of the abacus by the wasan scholar, Nakamura Seiei d. 1734 . There is

Binding: Wrappers

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