Genealogy of the Branches of the An Clan of Sunhŭng

by SunhŬNg An Ssi P’Abo 順興安氏派譜

$4,950 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

74; 78; 27 folding leaves but see below . Three juan kwŏn in three vols. Large 4to, orig. semi-stiff wrappers, old stitching. Korea : 1874 date of latest Preface . A rare genealogy of the An clan of Sunhŭng, probably printed by wooden movable type. Clans or lineages — agnatic descent groups — had become important in the social life of Korea since the beginning of the Chosŏn dynasty the “Confucian transformation of Korea,” in Martina

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