Xin Juan Quan Bu Fa Wei Li Zheng Tong Shu Da Quan Newly Cut Enlarged Great Collection Of The Correct

by Jingxiang He Naide Gu Chonglin Luo

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

Ca. 152 illus. 30 juan in 30 vols. 8vo, new wrappers, new stitching. China : after 1735? A rare example of an almanac that belonged to a once ubiquitous genre. Almanacs were “among the most broadly popular of guides to good fortune” in late imperial China. “Western observers in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century China repeatedly commented on the ubiquity of these works. One late nineteenth-century Western observer described these texts as

• Binding: Wrappers

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