K. Yŏnp’o tosŏl chibyo 演礮圖說輯要; Ch. Yan pao tu shuo ji yao Edited Essentials of Illustrated Explanations of Gunnery

by Gongchen 丁拱辰 Ding

$22,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

37 woodcut illus., some spanning several pages, all full-page. 74; 71 folding leaves. Two vols. Large 4to 334 x 202 mm. , orig. semi-stiff wrappers a little worn with orig. title slips on upper wrappers, new stitching. Korea : after 1843 . A rare Korean, movable-type edition of this pioneering Chinese work on Western technology, ballistics, and artillery. The author Ding Gongchen, one of the leading gunnery and gunpowder experts of China, was also the

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