![Carved on both sides, with later wooden handles & nicely engraved protective metalwork & two rings on each handle, containing parts of Hunchiyang sŏnsaeng munjip 塤篪兩先生文集 [The Collected Works of Two Masters, Hun & Chi], by Chŏng Man-yang 鄭萬陽 & Chŏng Gwi-yang 鄭葵陽, carved with classical Chinese text](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/834/056/1734056834.0.l.jpg)
Carved on both sides, with later wooden handles & nicely engraved protective metalwork & two rings on each handle, containing parts of Hunchiyang sŏnsaeng munjip 塤篪兩先生文集 [The Collected Works of Two Masters, Hun & Chi], by Chŏng Man-yang 鄭萬陽 & Chŏng Gwi-yang 鄭葵陽, carved with classical Chinese text
by WOODBLOCK, Korean
Woodblock (240 x 445 mm.) & handles. [Korea: 1706]. Woodblocks are invaluable historical artifacts in East Asian history, serving as key instruments in the preservation and dissemination of knowledge. The printing process involves brushing ink onto the carved surface, pressing a sheet of paper onto it, and rubbing it with a printing pad or brush to transfer the inked negative impression. Korea has a long and distinguished history of woodblock printing, with remarkable achievements such as the... Read More
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A Selection of New Books from America and Europe, Part I: Europe
by WORKFORTHEEYETODO, bookseller
Text illus. [20] pp. 8vo, orig. semi-stiff printed wrappers. London: 1995. A rare workfortheeyetodo catalogue of European artists’ books. workfortheeyetodo was a bookshop established in London by Simon Cutts and Erica van Horn of Coracle Press, and Maggie Smith. From 1992 until 1997, the space hosted exhibitions, marketed old and newly published works, and maintained a choice reference collection. It offers the work of artists such as Endre Tot, Vautier, Valoch, Andre, Boltanski, Downsbrough, Kosuth, Broodthaers, Darboven, Kawara,... Read More
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Some Implications of Poetry
by WORKFORTHEEYETODO, bookseller
[16] pp. 8vo, orig, crimson semi-stiff printed wrappers, staple-bound. London: 1994. An uncommon exhibition catalogue-cum- bookseller catalogue. workfortheeyetodo was a bookshop established in London by Simon Cutts and Erica van Horn of Coracle Press, and Maggie Smith. From 1992 until 1997, the space hosted exhibitions, marketed old and newly published works, and maintained a choice reference collection. This exhibition, held from 4 August to 30 September 1994, covered poetry books, anthologies, periodicals, and other artists’ books. The catalogue... Read More
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![[From first page]: Forever Multiples](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/785/030/1370030785.0.l.jpg)
[From first page]: Forever Multiples
by WORKFORTHEEYETODO, bookseller
[16] pp. Small 4to, orig. light green pictorial wrappers, staple-bound. [London: 1995]. A scarce catalogue of multiples. workfortheeyetodo was a bookshop established in London by Simon Cutts and Erica van Horn of Coracle Press, and Maggie Smith. From 1992 until 1997, the space hosted exhibitions, marketed old and newly published works, and maintained a choice reference collection. The present catalogue, with descriptions by John Janssen and compiled by Smith, offers 52 multiples and four reference works... Read More
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A collection of approximately 1650 chopstick wrappers, all of Japanese origin, pasted in four 8vo and two large 8vo albums, various bindings
by CHOPSTICK WRAPPERS
Japan: ca. 1920-30. A remarkable collection of more than 1600 Japanese chopstick wrappers, all carefully mounted in six albums. The wrappers vary from very plain to highly elaborate and offer a wide range of design and typography. Many have telephone numbers. The anonymous collector painstakingly (and lovingly) assembled this collection in the 1920s and 1930s; the wrappers advertise famous and forgotten restaurants, which served mostly Japanese but also Chinese and Western cuisines, from almost everywhere in Japan, ranging... Read More
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![Shinpen meihō ruitō isho taizen 新編名方類證醫書大全 [C. Yi shu da quan 醫書大全; Comprehensive Compendium of Medical Writings]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/259/838/1737838259.0.l.jpg)
Shinpen meihō ruitō isho taizen 新編名方類證醫書大全 [C. Yi shu da quan 醫書大全; Comprehensive Compendium of Medical Writings]
by XIONG, Zongli 熊宗立
23; 49; 54; 62; 62 (of 64, lacking two leaves); 36; 46; 53; 59 folding leaves. Nine vols. 8vo (271 x 175 mm.), modern wrappers, new stitching. [Sakai?]: [Privately Printed] for Asaino Sōzui 阿佐井野宗瑞, dated 1528 in Postscript. First edition, privately published, of the first medical book to be printed in Japan. This is the best-known work of the sakaiban 堺版 editions, whose appearance in the port city of Sakai (just south of Osaka) marked the beginning... Read More
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![Da Tang Xi yu ji 大唐西域記 (J.: Daitō saiiki ki) [The Great Tang Record of the Western Regions]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/852/522/1603522852.0.l.jpg)
Da Tang Xi yu ji 大唐西域記 (J.: Daitō saiiki ki) [The Great Tang Record of the Western Regions]
by XUANZANG 玄奘
Movable type printing. Ten columns per page, 20 characters per column. 52; 42; 42; 49; 50; 57 folding leaves. 12 parts in six vols. 8vo (284 x 190 mm.), orig. semi-stiff wrappers (rubbed), new stitching. [Japan]: [early 17th century]. An extremely rare early Japanese movable type edition of one of the most important sources on Sino-Indian cross-cultural exchange in the first millennium CE. Xuanzang (596-664), its author, “set off on his unauthorized journey to India... Read More
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![Beiping miao yu tong jian 北平廟宇通檢 [Comprehensive Inventory of Temples in Beiping]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/665/532/1581532665.0.l.jpg)
Beiping miao yu tong jian 北平廟宇通檢 [Comprehensive Inventory of Temples in Beiping]
by XU, Daoling 許道齡
Two vols. 8vo, orig. printed wrappers, orig. stitching. Beijing: Guo li Beiping yan jiu yuan 國立北平研究院, 1936. First edition of this work on Beijing’s temples. In 1930, the Historiographical Research Group of the National Research Academy of Beiping, as Beijing was then called, decided that “in preparation for producing a gazetteer for Beijing, the Buddhist temples, altars, Confucian temples, shrines, and halls will be surveyed by district and rubbings taken of stone inscriptions, for use... Read More
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![Shōhei sōsho mokuroku 昌平叢書目錄 [Books of the Library of Shoheizaka Gakumonjo]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/358/111/1317111358.0.l.jpg)
Shōhei sōsho mokuroku 昌平叢書目錄 [Books of the Library of Shoheizaka Gakumonjo]
by YAMADA, Eitaro 山田英太郎, ed
12 folding leaves. 8vo, orig. patterned wrappers, orig. block-printed title label on upper cover, new stitching. Tokyo: Shosanodo shoten, 1909. First edition of the catalogue of a part of the library of the famous Shoheizaka Gakumonjo school, which was located in what is today Ueno Park. The school had its origins as a private Confucian temple, constructed by Razan Hayashi (1583-1657), but was turned into a state-run school under the direct control of the bakufu in 1797, following... Read More
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![Seikyō yōroku 聖教要録 [Essentials of Confucianism]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/207/548/1737548207.0.l.jpg)
Seikyō yōroku 聖教要録 [Essentials of Confucianism]
by YAMAGA, Sokō 山鹿素行
27 folding leaves. Large 8vo (292 x 220 mm.), orig. semi-stiff wrappers (careful repairs), orig. title-slip, new stitching. [Japan]: Preface dated 1665. First edition of this handsomely printed book. It is very rare, with no copy in WorldCat. This is an important publication: a short Confucian treatise, it was a pointed critique of the Neo-Confucian orthodoxy of Zhu Xi (1130-1200) and Lu Xiangshan (11381), then prevalent in Japan. Yamaga, the founder of the “School of Ancient Learning,”... Read More
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![Manuscript on paper of his “Bukyo Zensho” [“The Complete Writings of Teaching on Military Affairs”], with his “Bukyo Shogaku” [“Introduction to the Bushido Culture”]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/046/436/1245436046.0.l.jpg)
Manuscript on paper of his “Bukyo Zensho” [“The Complete Writings of Teaching on Military Affairs”], with his “Bukyo Shogaku” [“Introduction to the Bushido Culture”]
by YAMAGA, Soko
Many fine brush & color and black & white paintings in the text. Two illus. with movable flaps (one is a volvelle). Finely written in a superb calligraphic hand on mica-coated (kirabiki) textured paper. 31; 34; 36; 35; 35; 30; 45; 33 leaves (not including blanks). Eight vols. 8vo (252 x 180 mm.), orig. dark blue wrappers bound in tetsuyoso style, each cover finely illustrated by hand in gold with depictions of landscapes with plants. [Japan]: Preface dated 1656;... Read More
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Very fine large scroll on high quality paper with 14 extremely beautiful paintings of plants and animals
by YAMAMOTO, Akio (or Keigu)
Scroll (420 x 12,000 mm.), with elaborate silk brocade endpaper at beginning. [Japan]: 1880-86. This beautifully rendered scroll of natural history paintings was executed, with one exception, by Akio (or Keigu) Yamamoto (1827-1903), Confucian scholar, doctor, botanist, and highly gifted artist. He was born in Kyoto, the son of the prominent doctor and botanist Boyo Yamamoto (1778-1859), the direct disciple of Ono Ranzan (1729-1810), the famous professor of botany who wrote a series of classic botanical books. ... Read More
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Shu yu zhou zi lu 殊域周咨録 [Record of Information Broadly Acquired from the Various Regions]
by YAN, Congjian 嚴從簡
Eight vols. 8vo, orig. wrappers, orig. stitching. [Beijing]: Gu gong bo wu yuan 故宮博物院, 1930. An important edition of this Chinese work on foreign countries from the late 16th century. Ming China was a well-connected player in the elaborate international exchange known as early modern globalization. The Ming court dispatched ships to far-away places, Ming merchants traded in East and Southeast Asia, and numerous countries regularly sent embassies to the Ming court. Our... Read More
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![Ryakuga shokunin zukushi 略画職人尽 [Sketches of All Types of Craftsmen]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/164/648/1744648164.0.l.jpg)
Ryakuga shokunin zukushi 略画職人尽 [Sketches of All Types of Craftsmen]
by YASHIMA, Gakutei 八島岳亭, artist
48 full-page color-printed woodcuts. 26.5 folding leaves. 8vo, orig. orange semi-stiff wrappers (quite rubbed), orig. title-slip, new stitching. Osaka, Edo, & Kyoto: Akitaya Taemon 秋田屋太右衛門, 1841. Second edition, “newly carved,” of this poetry anthology on the theme of various crafts and professions. The artist Gakutei (1786-1868) was a “man of many parts, a kyōka composer and a translator of Chinese literature into Japanese; and though he was probably never as natural and instinctive a master of the... Read More
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![Maehwa si 梅花詩 [Plum Blossom Poems]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/629/570/1563570629.0.l.jpg)
Maehwa si 梅花詩 [Plum Blossom Poems]
by YI, Hwang 李滉
Wood-block printed. 23 folding leaves. Folio (364 x 270 mm.), orig. wrappers (wrappers somewhat soiled & marked), new stitching. [Andong: Privately Printed at] Tosan sŏwŏn [or Dosan seowon], [most likely 1578 or, perhaps, 1638]. First edition, privately printed at the Tosan Academy, the private Confucian academy established in 1574, following Yi’s death; this is certainly one of the earliest books to be printed there, if not the first. Yi Hwang (1501-70), also known as Yi T’oegye,... Read More
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![Sheng xue shi tu 聖學十圖 [K: Sŏnghak sipto; Ten Diagrams on Sage Learning]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/746/530/1658530746.0.l.jpg)
Sheng xue shi tu 聖學十圖 [K: Sŏnghak sipto; Ten Diagrams on Sage Learning]
by YI, Hwang 李滉 (or T’OEGYE)
All sheets with woodblock diagrams. Ten woodblock-printed sheets (each ca. 1045 x 580 mm.). [Korea]: 18th or 19th century? A very rare woodblock-printed broadside edition of the influential Sŏnghak sipto, by Yi Hwang (1501-71), “Korea’s greatest philosopher.”–Pratt & Rutt, Korea. A Historical and Cultural Dictionary (Curzon: 1999), p. 517. Yi, a child prodigy, was a scholar and government official. He served four kings in a number of high positions, but his integrity and stand against corruption caused... Read More
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![Yija sŏngni sŏ [or] Yija seongni seo 李子性理書 [Writings on Human Nature and Principle by Master Yi]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/527/154/1569154527.0.l.jpg)
Yija sŏngni sŏ [or] Yija seongni seo 李子性理書 [Writings on Human Nature and Principle by Master Yi]
by YI, I 李珥
Edited by Yi To-jung 李度中. One woodblock text diagram. 62 folding leaves. Large 8vo (307 x 207 mm.), orig. semi-stiff wrappers (wrappers slightly soiled), orig. stitching. Korea: 1816. Yi I (1536-84) was one of the most important Neo-Confucian thinkers of Chosŏn Korea. This book is concerned with sŏng (Ch.: xing), “human nature,” and i (Ch.: li), “principle” or “coherence.” These were key concepts in Neo-Confucian metaphysics. Indeed, in Chinese, Neo-Confucianism is often called “the learning... Read More
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![Yija hakkyu 李子學則 [Master Yi’s School Rules]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/555/998/1562998555.0.l.jpg)
Yija hakkyu 李子學則 [Master Yi’s School Rules]
by YI, I 李珥
19 folding leaves. Large 8vo (293 x 189 mm.), orig. brown patterned semi-stiff wrappers, orig. stitching. Jeollanam-do: Chukkok chŏngsa , 1929. An exceedingly rare edition of Yi I’s Ŭnp’yŏng chŏngsa hakkyu (or Eunpyeong jeongsa hakkyu) 隱屏精舍學規 [School Rules for the Hidden Study Hall], Ŭnp’yŏng chŏngsa yaksok 隱屏精舍約束 [Compact for the Hidden Study Hall], and related texts as an independent work on “school rules.” We find no other copy in WorldCat, the Korean Old and Rare Collection Information... Read More
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![Kyŏng-ŭn sŏngsaeng silgi 耕隱先生實紀 [True Record of Master Kyŏng-ŭn]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/595/924/1769924595.0.l.jpg)
Kyŏng-ŭn sŏngsaeng silgi 耕隱先生實紀 [True Record of Master Kyŏng-ŭn]
by YI, Maeng-jŏn 李象靖
Compiled by Yi In-baek. 63 folding leaves. Three kwon in one vol. Large 8vo (302 x 204 mm.), orig. semi-stiff wrappers, new stitching. Korea: 1816. A biographical record compiled and published in 1816 by Yi In-baek, preserving the literary works and official documents of his ancestor Yi Maeng-jŏn (1392-1480, pen-name Kyŏng-ŭn 耕隱, "Cultivating in Reclusion"). He was one of the "Six Survivors," six officials who disapproved of King Sejŏ (r. 1455-68) after the latter's usurpation of the... Read More
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![Manuscript on paper, entitled in J. “Izō shomoku”; Ch. “Yi cang shu mu” 醫藏書目 [“List of Medical Books”]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/825/394/1614394825.0.l.jpg)
Manuscript on paper, entitled in J. “Izō shomoku”; Ch. “Yi cang shu mu” 醫藏書目 [“List of Medical Books”]
by YIN, Zhongchun 殷仲春
59 folding leaves. Two parts in one vol. 8vo (265 x 180 mm.), orig. yellow wrappers, new stitching. [Japan]: from the last page (in trans.): “copied from a copy made in 1656 from the Chinese edition.” A fine manuscript copy, with additions, of the earliest bibliography of Chinese medical books, written by Yin (1541-1621). One of the four Prefaces was written by Chen Yidian 陳懿典 (undated). Chen’s Preface traces the history of the concept of... Read More
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![Cheyangnok 制養錄 [Guide to Self-Discipline and Cultivation]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/049/550/1716550049.0.l.jpg)
Cheyangnok 制養錄 [Guide to Self-Discipline and Cultivation]
by YI, Sang-jŏng 李象靖
49 folding leaves. Two kwŏn in one vol. Small folio (323 x 215 mm.), orig. patterned yellow-brown wrappers, new stitching. [Korea]: Preface dated 1741. First edition of this rare late-Chosŏn Confucian manual on ethical cultivation and daily conduct, by Yi Sang-jŏng (1710-81), a scholar and government official known for his moral integrity, learning, and devotion to Confucian principles in state administration. He held a number of important posts including Chief Censor, Minister of Rites, and Senior Advisor... Read More
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![Yakjungpyeon 約中篇 [Discourse on Moderation]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/050/550/1716550050.0.l.jpg)
Yakjungpyeon 約中篇 [Discourse on Moderation]
by YI, Sang-jŏng 李象靖
46 folding leaves. Small folio (316 x 213 mm.), orig. yellow-brown semi-stiff wrappers, new stitching. Ch’ŏngsong 靑松: Pugang Sŏdang 鳧江書堂, 1849. First edition of a fascinating late-Chosŏn treatise by Yi Sang-jŏng (1711-81), elaborating on how to control one’s emotions. Yi was a prominent scholar who followed the legacy of Toegye Yi Hwang 李滉 (1502-70), the most important Neo-Confucian scholar in Korea. A scholar and government official, Yi was known for his moral integrity, learning, and devotion to... Read More
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![Kyŏngjaejam chipsŏl 敬齊箴集說 [Collected Commentaries on "Admonitions for the Study of Mindfulness and Orderliness"]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/372/925/1769925372.0.l.jpg)
Kyŏngjaejam chipsŏl 敬齊箴集說 [Collected Commentaries on "Admonitions for the Study of Mindfulness and Orderliness"]
by YI, Sang-jŏng 李象靖
One full-page woodcut diagram. 80 folding leaves. Large 8vo, orig. semi-stiff patterned wrappers, new stitching. Korea: 1750. A Neo-Confucian work by Yi Sang-jŏng (1710-81), a scholar of the late Chosŏn period, who systematized and explicated various interpretations of Kyŏngjaejam [Admonitions for the Study of Mindfulness and Orderliness] by the Chinese philosopher Zhu Xi (1130-1200). This work represents a transhistorical and international synthesis of Neo-Confucian moral philosophy, bridging Song and Ming Chinese and Chosŏn Korean intellectual... Read More
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![Ch’ŏngbyŏk sŏnsaeng munjip 青壁先生文集 [Compendium of the Writings of the Blue Wall Teacher]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/126/061/1673061126.0.l.jpg)
Ch’ŏngbyŏk sŏnsaeng munjip 青壁先生文集 [Compendium of the Writings of the Blue Wall Teacher]
by YI, Su-yŏn 李守淵
Compiled by Yi Jungrin 李中璘 & Afterword by Yi Man’in 李晩寅. Printed with wooden movable type. 60; 54 folding leaves. Four juan in two vols. Large 8vo, orig. semi-stiff wrappers, stitched. [Korea: 1898 or after 1890]. First edition of this collection of the writings of Yi Su-yŏn (1693–1748), a sixth-generation descendant of Yi Hwang 李滉 (1501–70), who was best known by his art name, T’oegye 退溪 (“Retreating Creek”). An intellectual admirer of Zhu Xi (1130–1200), the Chinese... Read More
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![Munmyo hyangsarok 文廟享祀錄 [Record of the Sacrifices at the Confucian Temple]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/408/003/1563003408.0.l.jpg)
Munmyo hyangsarok 文廟享祀錄 [Record of the Sacrifices at the Confucian Temple]
by YŎNGJO (or YEONGJO) 英祖, King of Korea
Four leaves of illus. 30 folding leaves. Large 8vo (305 x 208 mm.), orig. yellow semi-stiff wrappers (upper wrappers somewhat soiled, both wrappers with some worming), new stitching. [Korea]: 1765. First edition of this book published on royal command by King Yŏngjo of Chosŏn. The book was compiled by Kim Kwi-ju 金龜柱 (1740-86), the older brother of Queen Consort Chŏngsun (1745-1805). The royal Preface is furthermore written in Kim’s standard script calligraphy. Years after the compilation... Read More
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