Jūsō sagen 銃創瑣言 Treatment of Gunshot Wounds

by Shunsai 大槻俊斎 ŌTsuki

$6,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

First edition

1854. Four full-page woodcut illus. .5, 33 folding leaves. Large 8vo, orig. blue wrappers covers discolored & rubbed , new stitching. Japan : 1854. First edition of a very rare book. Ōtsuki 1806-62 , physician to the shogun, studied in Nagasaki under Siebold, where he learned Western medicine. He popularized vaccination in Japan. “Otsuki also translated unidentified writings of both von Chelius and Georg Friedrich Most, supposedly from Dutch

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