Ch’ugye kasŭng 秋溪家乘 Family Records of Ch’ugye

by Se-mun 秋世文 Ch’U

$5,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

First edition

23, 2, 2, 4, 3, 3, 22, 24, 12; 38, 28, 16; 15, 1, 20, 9 folding leaves. Five full-page woodblock maps. Woodblock-printed. Five kwŏn in three volumes. Small folio 384 x 202 mm. , orig. semi-stiff patterned wrappers, with handwritten titles on upper covers, old stitching. Daegu: Inhŭngjaesa, 1869. First edition of this famous biography of the 13th-century Korean scholar Ch’u Chŏk 秋適 1246-1317 , which establishes him as the author of the famous

• Binding: Wrappers

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