J: Kōshi seiseki no zu 孔子聖蹟之図 Pictures of the Sage’s Traces; Ch: Kongzi sheng ji tu 孔子聖蹟圖

by Kai 張楷 Zhang

$35,000 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

40 double-page woodcuts. 50; 37 folding leaves. Woodblock-printed. Two vols. Large 8vo 276 x 190 mm. , orig. orange wrappers rubbed , title-slips on upper covers, new stitching. From the final leaf in Vol. 2 in loose trans. : “Printed in 1628 in Kyoto by Kakyu 嘉休 & distributed in Kumamoto by Nagayama Kisaburō 長山喜三郎.” SATSUMA BAN: A very rare and finely illustrated Satsuma ban 薩摩版; we find no copy in WorldCat. The printing

• Binding: Wrappers

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