Yōjutsu chishin 要術知新 Important Secret Techniques, Just Acquired

by Lorenz Heister

$4,750 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

First edition

Trans. by Otsuki or Ootsuki Genkan 大槻玄幹 & Otsuki Gentaku 大槻玄沢. Numerous fine woodcut illus. in the text. 26.5; 40; 26.5 folding leaves without the six leaves of ads at end . Three vols. 8vo, orig. semi-stiff greenish-gray wrappers, orig. block-printed title labels on upper covers bindings a little wormed . Edo & Kyoto: Suharaya ihachi 須原屋伊八 et al., Preface dated 1824. First edition in Japanese; this is a very rare book with no

• Binding: Wrappers

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