Sambongji 三峰志 Gazetteer of the Three Peaks

by Si-hwa 金始鏵 Kim, Ch’ŏl-lam or Kim

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First edition

31 folding leaves. Large 8vo 305 x 190 mm. , orig. patterned semi-stiff wrappers wrappers slightly soiled , new stitching. Yeongju: 1774.First edition, and very rare, of this gazetteer for the Confucian Three Peaks Academy WorldCat 46318280 . The word “gazetteer” is used in reference to a genre of East Asian historical and geographical texts generally known in Korea as ŭpchi 邑志, which translates roughly to “local treatises.” The

• Binding: Wrappers

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