Yuan shi xin bian 元史新編 New Edition of the History of the Yuan

by Yuan 魏源 Wei

$6,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller · No longer available

32 vols. 8vo, orig. wrappers, orig. stitching. Shaoyang, Hunan: Wei Shenwei Tang 魏慎微堂, 1906.First or early edition of a major work on Yuan history by one of the leading Chinese thinkers of the 19th century. The Yuan empire comprised the parts of the Mongol empire that were ruled from present-day Beijing. It included all of China and was treated by later Chinese historiographers as a Chinese imperial dynasty. Thus, after Mongol power in China

• Binding: Wrappers

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