Wakan senyō shū 和漢船用集 Encyclopedic Study of Japanese & Chinese & Korean and Other Asian & Western Ships

by Kanemitsu 金澤兼光 Kanazawa

$27,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

Many double-page & full-page woodcuts throughout. 12 vols. 8vo, orig. pale blue semi-stiff wrappers, most title-slips absent, new stitching. Osaka: Fujiya Tokubei 藤屋徳兵衛 & Edo: Suharaya Mohei 須原屋茂兵衛, 1827. Second edition 1st ed.: 1766 of the “first treatise on the history and technology of ships in Japan… It was written in 1761 and published five years later by Kanemitsu Kanazawa, who came from a family in Osaka with a long

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