Manuscript on paper, entitled “Kowa jinpu” “Encyclopedia of Mushrooms”

by Mushrooms

$1,750 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

39 folding leaves, using pre-printed paper. 8vo 260 x 183 mm. , orig. patterned blue wrappers, new stitching. Japan : Preface dated 1791 but this is a later copy, probably early Meiji. A fine manuscript copy of the unpublished work by the doctor and botanist Senshun So 1758-1834 , on the varieties of mushrooms found throughout Japan. So devotes much of the text to the medicinal uses mushrooms have. At the end, So discusses how to identify poisonous

• Binding: Wrappers

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