Author: GULIK, R[OBERT] H. VAN (1910-1967),
Title: Hsi Káng and his Poetical Essay on the Lute. With his annotated english translation accompanied by the Full original Chinese text of the Ch'in-fu. New edition, revised and reset.
Description: Tokyo & Rutland (Vermont), Sophia University-Charles E. Tuttle, 1969. Original japanese style ornamented cloth, red coloured label with title in gilt on spine, dustjacket. 133pp. Coloured frontispiece, extensive footnotes, chinese character printing, concise biographical note with a portrait of author on lower inner backflap of dustjacket, table of contents. Extensively annotated and translated scientific monograph, still of great importance. Very fine copy, WITH dustjacket. (lower corner of front inner flap of dustjacket clipped, large institutional ex-librias pasted inside front boards, concise Ms. annotation by previous owner on verso of ti.-p., NOT disturbing however).

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