Huangshigong Michuan Yangzhai Biyong Essentials For Architecture Of The Living Secretly

by Cangru Yuan

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

Woodblock-printed. Woodcut illustrations, diagrams, & architectural plans in vols. 1-3. 1 , 3, 4, 9, 23; 21; 24; 32 folding leaves. Four juan in four vols. 8vo 237 x 150 mm. , new wrappers, new stitching. China : Guwu shuye tang 古吳書業堂, title page dated 1821. An early, comprehensive manual on the “Eight Mansions” bazhai 八宅 method for determining architectural layouts of human dwellings yangzhai 陽宅 — a

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