Kōwa gyofu 皇和魚譜 Catalogue of Fish from Our August Japan

by Tanshū 栗本丹洲 Kurimoto, author, Tsunenori 大淵常範 ŌBuchi

$8,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

First edition

Numerous black & gray ink woodcut illus. 52 folding leaves. Large 8vo, orig. semi-stiff wrappers a little tired , new stitching. Japan : Shijudō 資壽堂, 1838. First edition of this rare book by a prominent naturalist-scholar, edited by his grandson. Our book can be seen as reflecting two trends in the intellectual life of late-Tokugawa Japan. The first is the flourishing of honzōgaku 本草學, or “natural studies.” The second is the

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