ROSNY (Léon de). [Syo-Ki. The canonical book of Japanese ant - Lot 199

ROSNY (Léon de). [Syo-Ki. The canonical book of Japanese antiquity]. Kami yo-no maki, Histoire des dynasties divines published in Japanese, translated for the first time from the original text, accompanied by an unpublished gloss composed in Chinese and a perpetual commentary written in French. Paris,Leroux, 1884-1887. Large in-8, CXIII-391 p., index, contemporary brown half-basin, ribbed spine, gilt title (corners a little rubbed, margins usually yellowed). Reunion of volumes XVI and XVII of the Publications de l'Ecole des Langues Orientales Vivantes, second series; the first published in 1884 under the title "Kami yo-no maki, Histoire des dynasties divines", reissued in 1887 under the general title "Syo-Ki. Le livre canonique de l'Antiquité japonaise publié en Japonais et en français par Léon de Rosny, tome 1er" (only published). First French edition based on the original text of the "Kami yo-no Maki", the first of the two books of the "Yamato-Bumi" or "Bible of Japan", the second of the three canonical books of ancient Japan (720) (Cordier, Japonica 535).