Gu shengxian xiang zhuan lüe 古聖賢像傳畧 Biographical Sketched Portraits of Sages & Worthies in History

by Yuan 顧沅 Gu

$29,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

First edition

1830-31. 425 full-page woodcut ports. 16 vols. 8vo, orig. wrappers, old stitching. Changzhou: Privately Printed, 1830-31.First edition, rare and a very fine set, of this richly illustrated book, a collection of woodblock portraits of historical figures accompanied by short texts. The individuals illustrated, beginning with Cang Jie, the legendary inventor of the Chinese script, lived from antiquity to as recently as the Ming dynasty. Ye Shusheng

• Binding: Wrappers

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