Seiko Kaikoku heidan Military Defense of a Maritime Nation

by Shihei Hayashi

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

Many woodcut illus., some full-page & double-page. Ten columns per page; 20 characters per column. Eight vols. 8vo, orig. blue now partly faded to pale green patterned wrappers, orig. block-printed title labels on upper covers, new stitching. Japan: Prefaces dated 1786; title-page with the date “1854.” A privately printed edition of this famous text and an extremely rare example of a mokkatsujiban a movable wooden type Japanese book printed

• Binding: Wrappers

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