![J: Shuju shikan zazen hoyo 修習止觀坐禪法要; alternate titles: Domo shikan & Shoshikan [Ch.: Xiu xi zhi guan zuo chan fa yao; alternate title: Hsiao-chih-kuan; The Method for Practicing Cessation & Contemplation by Sitting in Meditation]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/727/534/1471534727.0.l.jpg)
J: Shuju shikan zazen hoyo 修習止觀坐禪法要; alternate titles: Domo shikan & Shoshikan [Ch.: Xiu xi zhi guan zuo chan fa yao; alternate title: Hsiao-chih-kuan; The Method for Practicing Cessation & Contemplation by Sitting in Meditation]
by ZHIYI 智顗
1629. Ten columns, 20 characters per column. 43 folding leaves. Ten chapters in one vol. Large 8vo, orig. brown wrappers (rather rubbed), new stitching. [Japan]: from the colophon, in trans.: “February 1629.” First edition to be printed in Japan of the summary and update of what is probably the first practical manual of meditation in China (Sekiguchi, in trans.); it served as the model for almost all subsequent meditation manuals (Swanson, p. 2). It was “by far... Read More
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![Ryūkyūkoku shiryaku 琉球國志略 [C. Liuqiu guo zhi lue; History of the Ryukyu Kingdom]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/288/548/1737548288.0.l.jpg)
Ryūkyūkoku shiryaku 琉球國志略 [C. Liuqiu guo zhi lue; History of the Ryukyu Kingdom]
by ZHOU, Huang 周煌
17 double-page & two full-page woodcuts. 46; 68; 39; 62; 68; 67 folding leaves. 16 kan in six vols. 8vo, orig. semi-stiff wrappers (wrappers rubbed), title-slips on upper covers (some slightly defective), new stitching. [Edo]: [Shōheizaka Gakumonjo 昌平坂学問所 (Bakufu Academy)], from final leaf: 1831. First edition to be printed in Japan (1st ed.: China: ca. 1757) of this comprehensive and influential account of the Ryukyu archipelago, by Zhou (1714-85), a high Qing official and scholar who obtained... Read More
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![An e-bangire (writing-paper edition), depicting six of the main characters from Shui hu zhuan [J: Suikoden; Water Margin [or] Outlaws of the Marsh]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/473/316/1500316473.0.l.jpg)
An e-bangire (writing-paper edition), depicting six of the main characters from Shui hu zhuan [J: Suikoden; Water Margin [or] Outlaws of the Marsh]
by E-BANGIRE: SHUI HU ZHUAN
Six large & fine color-printed woodcuts on six sheets, joined together. Narrow orihon format (321 x 72 mm.; sheet lengths: 357, 425, 420, 425, 415, & 283 mm.), orig. stiff boards, endpapers with gold speckling. [Japan: late Edo or Meiji era]. A very rare example of e-bangire (or ehankiri or ebankiri or ebangiri): woodcut prints using pale colors and printed on half sheets of sugiharagami writing paper. The half-sheet illustrations were then joined together, forming narrow orihon.... Read More
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![Karye chŭnghae 家禮增解 [Family Rituals with Expanded Explanations]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/589/763/1728763589.0.l.jpg)
Karye chŭnghae 家禮增解 [Family Rituals with Expanded Explanations]
by ZHU, Xi 朱熹 & YI, Ŭi-jo 李宜朝
Many woodcut illus. Mongnok in one kwŏn & 14 numbered kwŏn, in ten volumes. Small folio (300 x 223 mm.), orig. wrappers (wrappers a little soiled & stained), handwritten title & kwŏn numbers in black ink on each upper cover, new stitching. [Chirye, Kyŏngsang-do]: [Kyŏngho yŏngdang], [Postscript dated 1824]. Possibly the first edition (see below) of this illustrated compendium of the Family Rituals (Ch. Jiali 家禮), popular in 19th-century Korea. Integrating a large number of earlier Chinese... Read More
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![Ŏjŏng chusŏ paeksŏn 御定朱書百選 [Royal Edition of a Hundred Selected Letters of Zhu]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/941/764/1728764941.0.l.jpg)
Ŏjŏng chusŏ paeksŏn 御定朱書百選 [Royal Edition of a Hundred Selected Letters of Zhu]
by ZHU, Xi 朱熹, author, & CHŎNGJO 正祖, King of Korea, editor
]. 1 p.l., 4, 25, 34, 29; 37, 30, 28 folding leaves. Six kwŏn in two volumes. Small folio (360 x 223 mm.), orig. wrappers (some wear & rubbing), handwritten title on covers, orig. stitching. [Hansŏng]: Kyujanggak, [ca. 1799]. A royal gift, presented by the king of Korea. In 1794, King Chŏngjo (1752-1800) of the Chŏson dynasty compiled and had printed a collection of the letters of the great Neo-Confucian philosopher Zhu Xi 朱熹 (1130-1200) to be... Read More
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![Karye 家禮 [Ch. Jiali; Family Rituals]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/282/464/1731464282.0.l.jpg)
Karye 家禮 [Ch. Jiali; Family Rituals]
by ZHU, Xi 朱熹
20, 28, 10; 14, 38; 22, 23, 25 folding leaves. Printed with metal movable type. One kwŏn of illustrations & seven numbered kwŏn in three vols. Small folio (334 x 220 mm.), orig. semi-stiff wrappers (rubbed), handwritten titles on upper covers, old stitching. [Hansŏng]: [Kyosŏgwan], colophon: 1759. A rare and early illustrated Korean edition of the Family Rituals, printed with musinja 戊申字 metal movable type at the royal publishing house, Kyosŏgwan 校書館. The Family Rituals,... Read More
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![Kŭnsarok 近思錄 [Reflections on Things at Hand]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/127/061/1673061127.0.l.jpg)
Kŭnsarok 近思錄 [Reflections on Things at Hand]
by ZHU, Xi 朱熹 & LÜ, Zuqian 呂祖謙
Edited by Ye Cai 葉采. 14 juan in four vols. Small folio, orig. semi-stiff wrappers, old stitching. [Chosŏn Korea: ca. 1668-1724]. Kŭnsarok is one of the most influential Neo-Confucian compendiums, compiled by the Song dynasty scholars Zhu Xi (1130–1200) and Lü Zuqian (1137–81). The work distills passages from foundational texts into a series of hypothetical dialogues, with questions regarding the pursuit of everyday scholarship and Northern Song masters answering them. We find no copy of this edition... Read More
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![Jing shi fang xiang zhi 京師坊巷志 [Treatise on the Neighborhoods and Alleys of the Capital]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/795/112/1572112795.0.l.jpg)
Jing shi fang xiang zhi 京師坊巷志 [Treatise on the Neighborhoods and Alleys of the Capital]
by ZHU, Yixin 朱一新 & MIAO, Quansun 繆荃孫
Six vols. 8vo, orig. wrappers, orig. block-printed title labels on upper covers (two missing), orig. stitching. [China]: Liu shi Qiushu zhai 劉氏求恕齋, 1918. A scarce edition of this work on the local history of Beijing, initially written for inclusion in a so-called gazetteer. “A gazetteer is a cumulative record of a territorial unit published in book format, generally by a local government, and arranged by topics such as topography, institutions, population, taxes, biographies, and literature”... Read More
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Amerikaner
by ZOBERNIG, Heimo
Black & white illus. throughout. ca. [664] pp. Large & thick 4to, printed softcover, numbered on lower cover, title on spine. Graz, Austria: Forum Stadtpark, 1992. One of 500 numbered copies of a rare artist’s book by Zobernig (b. 1958); WorldCat records a single copy in North America. It was published for the 1992 Steirischer Herbst, organized by the Grazer Kunstverein project Compiled by artist Mathias Poledna (b. 1965), the book consists of photocopies of the first... Read More
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Manuscript on paper, entitled on first leaf of text “Secret and Truthful Story of the Capture of the Bandits.”
by ZOKKINHISEIDAN 賊禁秘誠談
39; 41 folding leaves. Two parts in one vol. Large 8vo (277 x 187 mm.), orig. semi-stiff wrappers with orig. manuscript title slip, new stitching. [Japan:] after 1782. The story of the life of Ishikawa Goemon 石川五右衛門 (1558-94), a legendary bandit of the late “Warring States” period. Historical sources pertaining to Ishikawa’s life are extremely sparse, amounting to only a few mentions of his execution by being boiled in a vat of oil in Kyoto... Read More
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![Book Show: Artist’s Book Show and Reading Room Exhibition (opening 12 September [1981])](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/517/580/1546580517.0.l.jpg)
Book Show: Artist’s Book Show and Reading Room Exhibition (opening 12 September [1981])
by ZONE, publisher
Unpaginated. 8vo, pink printed wrappers, staple-bound. Springfield, MA: 1981. Scarce exhibition catalogue of artists’ books. The show was organized by guest curator Carol Forget and assistant curator Brendan Stecchini. 246 books listed (plus some “late entries”). From Forget’s Introduction: “An artist’s book like any other artwork is a result of a concern. It is a merging of ideas or of one single idea and some kind of technology into an intimate, accessible form…An overwhelming number... Read More
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