Enroku
By Otsuki, Gentaku
On the origins, required `tools`, health benefits, dangers, and ways of enjoying smoking tobacco. The books include numerous woodblock-printed illustrations of smoking-pipes from different countries, and the first page of volume one has been stamped in red with the author`s seal. Original wrappers. Cataloguing information pasted to verso of upper wrappers. Occasional browning/stains to volumes 1 and 3. Title slip of volume 1 missing. Occasional wormholing, mostly repaired. With ex-library stickers of `Bibliotheca Japonica, W. Braumuller, Wien`. Very good to near fine. 3 v., complete. 3, 3, 5, 24, 36, 29, 15 leaves. 27.2 x 16.8 cm. Text in Japanised Chinese (kanbun).
Published by: [Edo (Tokyo)]: Shirando, 1798
Vendor: Kagerou Bunko (ABAJ, ILAB)
By Otsuki, Gentaku
On the origins, required `tools`, health benefits, dangers, and ways of enjoying smoking tobacco. The books include numerous woodblock-printed illustrations of smoking-pipes from different countries, and the first page of volume one has been stamped in red with the author`s seal. Original wrappers. Cataloguing information pasted to verso of upper wrappers. Occasional browning/stains to volumes 1 and 3. Title slip of volume 1 missing. Occasional wormholing, mostly repaired. With ex-library stickers of `Bibliotheca Japonica, W. Braumuller, Wien`. Very good to near fine. 3 v., complete. 3, 3, 5, 24, 36, 29, 15 leaves. 27.2 x 16.8 cm. Text in Japanised Chinese (kanbun).
Published by: [Edo (Tokyo)]: Shirando, 1798
Vendor: Kagerou Bunko (ABAJ, ILAB)
