Manuscript On Fine Thick Torinoko Eggshell Paper Entitled Bukyo Yoryaku Abridged Essentials Of

by Yoshikata Usami Attributed Author

$7,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

Manuscript on fine paper. Each page with a border of silver pigment; each column of text with silver borders. Numerous finely hand-colored illustrations, heightened with gold & silver. 16 vols. of notebooks 230 x 153 mm. , each bound in retchoso or butterfly style with fine silk over semi-stiff wrappers, inside endpapers decorated with metallic clouds. Japan : mid- to late Edo period. A beautiful and luxurious manuscript on the art of war

• Binding: Wrappers

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