KALLYE HUICH’AN or Gallye huichan 簡禮彙纂 Compilation of Rites for the Bamboo Slips

by Anon

$3,000 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

1, 6, 11, 47 folding leaves. Large 8vo, orig. yellow patterned wrappers wrappers a little soiled , orig. block-printed title label on upper cover, new stitching. Korea: 1870s . A rare anonymous manual for the general education of writers of classical Chinese from late Chosŏn Korea. The term “bamboo slips” originally referred to the material supports of writing in antiquity. In classical Chinese usage of later ages — and in this title — the

• Binding: Wrappers

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