Somoku Zusetsu Plants Trees Illustrated Explained From Labels On Upper Covers Shintei Somoku

by Yokusai Iinuma

$45,000 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

1874-75. Lithographed frontis. port. of the author in Vol. I. About 1200 very fine woodcuts, some double-page, of plants, many with sections delicately hand-colored. 20 vols. Large 8vo, orig. yellow patterned wrappers, orig. block-printed title-labels on upper covers, new stitching. Ogaki, Mino Province: Hirabayashi so 平林荘, 1874-75. Second edition, revised and enlarged, of this magnificent Japanese botanical work; it is considered “the first

• Binding: Wrappers

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