Manuscript On Paper Entitled On Manuscript Labels On Upper Covers First Leaves Of Text Suigun

by Sojun Tani

$4,750 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

Numerous illus. in text, some using colored ink & four manuscript maps one is loose . 37; 47; 33; 48 folding leaves. Six parts in four vols. 8vo 270 x 191 mm. , orig. semi-stiff wrappers, old stitching. Izu province: from the final leaf: “copied in 1847.” An apparently unique survival of a manual with instructions for naval warfare. Japan in the Tokugawa period maintained strict control of its maritime border, with only Chinese and Dutch

• Binding: Wrappers

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