Da Tang Xi yu ji 大唐西域記 J.: Daitō saiiki ki The Great Tang Record of the Western Regions

by Xuanzang 玄奘

$75,000 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

Movable type printing. Ten columns per page, 20 characters per column. 52; 42; 42; 49; 50; 57 folding leaves. 12 parts in six vols. 8vo 284 x 190 mm. , orig. semi-stiff wrappers rubbed , new stitching. Japan : early 17th century . An extremely rare early Japanese movable type edition of one of the most important sources on Sino-Indian cross-cultural exchange in the first millennium CE. Xuanzang 596-664 , its author, “set off on his unauthorized

• Binding: Wrappers

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