K. Tongŭi pogam 東醫寶鑑 Treasured Mirror of Eastern Medicine or Classified Book of Medicine

by Chun 許浚 HŎ, or Heo Jun or Xu

$55,000 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

1634. Several woodcut illus. in the text. 25 vols. Folio 346 x 230 mm. , orig. wrappers rubbed & several with some wear, three vols. with some staining, occasional minor foxing , orig. stitching. Hansŏng : colophon in Vol. 2 dated 1634 . Second edition 1st ed.: 1613 of a very great rarity, “the greatest of all Korean medical treatises, which devotes its last chapters to acupuncture and moxibustion.”–Lu & Needham, Celestial Lancets, p.

• Binding: Wrappers

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