Zheng su wen 證俗文 Discriminating Among Popular Phrases

by Yixing 郝懿行 Hao

$5,000 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

Six vols. 8vo, orig. wrappers, orig. block-printed title labels on upper covers, orig. stitching. China : Shaishu tang 曬書堂, 1884.A mid-Qing work of glossography and ethnography by a leading scholar. The work “does not separate its contents into sections, but the source material of every juan is roughly regrouped by kind. Juan 1 covers foodstuffs, juan 2 clothing, juan 3 tools, juan 4 forms of address,

• Binding: Wrappers

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