Da jin ji li 大金集禮 Collection of Rituals of the Great Jin

by Tingxiang 廖廷相 Liao

$3,750 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

96; 94; 101; 84 folding leaves. Four vols. Large 8vo, orig. wrappers, orig. stitching. Guangzhou : Guangya shuju 廣雅書局, 1895.Early — possibly the first — printed edition of a work on the state rites of the Jurchen Jin dynasty, probably written in the late 12th century. The Jurchens ruled northern China under the name of Jin from 1115 to 1234. They were a people from present-day northeast China who spoke a Tungusic language related to

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