Shijo Family’s Collection of Secret Information

by Shijoke Hiden Sho 四條家秘伝書

$15,000 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

First edition

Numerous woodcuts, many full-page, in the text. 2 p.l., 27, 11, 26; 20, 21, 24 folding leaves. Six parts in two vols. Oblong 8vo, orig. blue wrappers, manuscript title labels on upper covers the label on Vol. I is largely worn away , new stitching. Kyoto? : most of the parts end with the date 1642. First edition of this rare collection of early gastronomic texts from the Shijo school of hocho shiki. It was the oldest school of the special

• Binding: Wrappers

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