Nam bắc đẩu kinh 南北斗經 Ch. Nan bei dou jing; Scripture of the Southern & Northern Dippers

by Vietnamese Scriptures Of Longevity

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

One full-page woodcut illus. Woodblock-printed. 2 , 21, 1 folding leaves. 8vo, orig. yellow wrappers with handwritten title on cover, old stitching, red edges. Hanoi: Đền Ngọc Sơn, 1859 from title-page . This rare work contains Daoist scriptures of longevity printed at the Ngọc Sơn Temple 玉山殿, located within Lake Hoàn Kiếm in the center of Hanoi. Established in Thiệu Trị 1 1841 by Vũ Tông Phan 武宗璠 1800-51 , president of

• Binding: Wrappers

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