Woodblock-printed. Many woodcut illustrations throughout of geological formations. [3], 4, 3, 62 (f. 47 misbound before f. 46); 61 (f. 32 misbound before f. 31); 58 (ff. 53-54 lacking); 62 (f. 20 duplicated) folding leaves. Four juan in 4 vols. 8vo (218 x 158 mm.), plain paper wrappers (upper wrapper of Vol. I defective), new stitching. [China]: Jusheng tang 聚盛堂, Preface dated 1790.

First edition of Li Yun’s 黎雲 (hao Huafeng shanren 化峯山人) treatise on traditional Chinese geology (dili 地理; kanyu 堪輿; fengshui 風水), with hundreds of woodcut illustrations of land and waterway formations, which sought to demonstrate every common... More