- Bib ID:
- 79472
- Format:
- Book
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- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Description:
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- [S.l. : s.n., 1869]
- 3 v. (118 p., 128 p., 324 p.) ; 32 cm.
- Series:
- McLaren-Human collection
- Summary:
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This is a 3 volume 19th century edition of writings by Yi Tok-hyong (1561-1613). Yi was a major writer about the invasions of Korea during the 1590s by the Japanese leader Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1536-1598), as he sought to attack China via the Korean peninsula.
- Notes:
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- Cover title.
- Printed on double leaves, oriental style.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-248232053
- Text in classical Chinese.
- The Library's McLaren-Human collection includes two copies of this work, with differing covers but identical contents. The second copy has been annotated in English and Korean, possibly by Jessie McLaren, explaining that the "Hanum" of the title is one of the names of Yi Tok-hyong, and that he was born in 1561.
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