Woodblock-printed. Woodcut illustrations, diagrams, & architectural plans in vols. 1-3. [1], 3, 4, 9, 23; 21; 24; 32 folding leaves. Four juan in four vols. 8vo (237 x 150 mm.), new wrappers, new stitching. [China]: Guwu shuye tang 古吳書業堂, title page dated 1821.

An early, comprehensive manual on the “Eight Mansions” (bazhai 八宅) method for determining architectural layouts of human dwellings (yangzhai 陽宅) — a major subdivision of traditional fengshui learning — attributed to Yuan Shizhen 袁世振 (hao Cangru 滄孺, d. 1631), with contributions by Xiong Wenxuan 熊文選 (zi Fengzhou 鳳洲, n.d.) and first published by Zhou Yuwu 周譽吾 (fl... More