Dili jiyao 地理輯要 The Essentials of Geology

by Peng 余鵬 Yu

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First edition

Woodblock-printed. With woodcut illustrations of geological formations. 6， 31， 26 （duplicate of f. 13 bound after f. 14 , 17, 20; 31, 34, 33, 34 folding leaves. Introductory juan and 7 numbered juan in two vols. 8vo 226 x 145 mm. , plain paper wrappers, old stitching. China : Guihua lou 桂華樓 title-page , Preface dated 1751.First edition of the anthology of canonical texts within the Chinese geological tradition dili

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