Lot 198 - Antique 1925 Chinese Woodblock-Printed Moral Tract Shanshu 善書 Promoting Virtue And Cause-And-Effect Retribution, Republic Of China Era, Note Poor Condition (Identification Informed By Google Translate And A.I.) Victor_t one uncased ambrotype lacking black

one uncased ambrotype lacking black backing

and small marks consistent with age

including a couple chips in the yellow paint of the eagle's beak and in the faux wood base

Antique carved marble book-form Bible with incised cross motif on the cover

Lot 198 - Antique 1925 Chinese Woodblock-Printed Moral Tract Shanshu 善書 Promoting Virtue And Cause-And-Effect Retribution, Republic Of China Era, Note Poor Condition (Identification Informed By Google Translate And A.I.) Victor_t one uncased ambrotype lacking blackAntique Chinese stitched paper bound woodblock printed book dated to the winter month of the 14th year of the Republic of China (1925). Printed on traditional handmade paper with black ink text in vertical format and an orange brown wrapper. The work appears to be a Shanshu , or moral tract, teaching Confucian and Buddhist principles of virtue, righteousness, filial piety, and karmic cause and effect (yin guo bao ying). Such texts were distributed