Manuscript on paper, entitled at beginning of main text “Kaoku zakko” 家屋雜考 “Explanation of the History of Japanese Architecture”

by Natari 澤田名垂 Sawada

$7,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

Seven very fine brush & ink illus. on folding plates & 29 full-page or double-page brush & ink illus. in the text. 48; 59 folding leaves. Five parts in two vols. 8vo 274 x 194 mm. , orig. semi-stiff blue wrappers, manuscript title-slips, new stitching. Japan : at end of Preface we find, in rough trans.: “the original manuscript was written by Sawada about 10 August 1842”; this is a slightly later copy. A fine manuscript of the “Kaoku zakko” by

• Binding: Wrappers

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