Jin gang jing zhu jiang 金剛經註講 Explaining the Diamond Sutra

by Taiwanese Diamond Sutra

$12,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

First edition

Woodblock-printed. Two half-page woodcut illus. of the Buddha & Skanda/Weituo. 3 , 80 folding leaves. 8vo, old paper wrappers, old stitching. Taiwan fucheng 台灣府城: Dehua tang 德化堂, 1856. An unusual edition of the Diamond Sutra, reprinted in 1856 from the now lost 1688 first edition. Taiwanese woodblock-printed books that predate the administrative expansion of the 1870s and the Japanese invasion in 1895 are very rare: we find only a

• Binding: Wrappers

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