Some woodcut diagrams. Woodblock-printed. 3, 76; 71; 93; 71 folding leaves. Four quyển in four vols. 8vo, orig. wrappers with pasted-on handwritten title-slip, leaves appear to be knot-bound inside, red edges. [Vietnam: Nguyễn dynasty?].

Rare Vietnamese edition of the Classic of Changes, incorporating cosmological diagrams and commentaries of the Neo-Confucian philosophers Shao Yong 邵雍 (1012-77), Cheng Yi 程颐 (1033-1107) and Zhu Xi 朱熹 (1130-1200). The only other Vietnamese copy of the Classic of Changes in WorldCat is a different edition, held at Leiden University (accession no. 695525306).

“The Yijing was probably introduced into Vietnam at about the same time... More