hakuseki arai joyce ackroyd (7 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Used-Good. Cloth, dj. Octavo. xii & 347 pp. Mild shelf wear to dust jacket. Minor highlighting to text.

Super octavo, cream cloth boards with blue buckram spine, gilt lettering to spine, xii + 347pp, Near FINE (prev. owner's v sm name label to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping ot edges, 1cm loss to lower spine extrem, light to moderate fading to spine).

Hard Cover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First English Language Edition. xii, 347pp, index, appendices (inc glossary, chronology), notes, few bw diagrams. Or white cloth with blue spine in jacket. Spine faded a couple of shades. English translation of the celebrated Confucian scholar Arai Hakuseki (1657-1725) who was an influential advisor to Shogun Tokugawa Ienobu and his successor Ietsugu. He wroite widely on coinage, foreign trade, taxation, diplomatic protocol, justice, the samurai code, and benevolent government. This work is considered the first Japanese autobiography and as a unique primary source for the first half of the Tokugawa period consitutes an important supplement ot the official record. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Hardcover, in dust jacket. Slight fading and handling. Otherwise, clean, tight, and unmarked. Very neat -- a sound and handsome copy. xii,347pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, lx + 417pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, prev. owner's name in ink & white-out to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, light fading to spine, light chafing & soiling).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. lx, 417 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. UNESCO collection of representative works, Japanese series. Translation of: Tokushi yoron. "Written in 1712 is one of the three great seminal works in Japanese Histography, and is acknowledged as the most outstanding interpretive history of Japan in pre-modern times".

8vo, pp. lx, 417, [3]; tables, maps and plans; full black boards; fine in sun-toned dust jacket. "The Tokushi Yoron is acknowledged as the most outstanding interpretive history of Japan in pre-modern times. Extraordinarily modern in its scientific and philosophic sophistication, it has influenced all subsequent Japanese historians. It is also a compendious and critical guide to previous histories, as it quotes from and comments on some seventy sources, some of which are no longer extant.".