Shinchō. Kōchō ruien 新雕. 皇朝類苑 Newly Carved. Categorized Garden of Historical Facts or A Library of Chinese Classics

by Courtly Scholars by Chokuban 勅版, Imperial Printing

$150,000 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

First edition

Collected & edited by Jiang Shaoyu 江少虞. Complete in 78 parts plus table of contents, bound in 15 vols. full collation supplied in the Hyde catalogue . Large 8vo 286 x 215 mm. , early paper wrappers, new stitching. Japan : chokuban privately published by the Emperor Go-Mizunoo’s order , 1621. First edition and a fine complete set of one of the very few surviving “imperial editions” printed with movable type kokatsujiban

• Binding: Wrappers

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