Seiko Kaikoku heidan 海國兵談 Military Defense of a Maritime Nation

by Shihei 林子平 Hayashi

$4,250 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

First edition

Many woodcut illus., some full-page & double-page. Ten vols. bound in five. 8vo, orig. brown semi-stiff wrappers, title-slips, new stitching. Edo et al.: Shōryūken 松柳軒, 1856. The first edition to be printed by woodblock and commercially published; due to the book’s sensitive content, the previous three editions 1787-91, 1851, and 1854 were all privately published in small editions see below , printed by movable wooden

• Binding: Wrappers

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