Seikei zusetsu 成形圖說 An Illustrated Book of Agricultural Things

by Senshun 曾占春 So, compilers, eds

$16,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

First edition

1804. 33 double-page & 181 full-page black & white woodcuts. 30 vols. bound in 15. Large 8vo, orig. brown patterned semi-stiff wrappers, orig. block-printed title labels on upper covers, new stitching. Kagoshima fiefdom : Kagoshima-han 鹿兒島藩 , Introduction in first volume dated “1804.” First edition of this great agricultural and botanical work, an encyclopedic survey of all the agricultural products and practices of Japan. It is wonderfully

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