Kubai yōhō 駆梅要方 Treatment of Syphilis

by Ryōsai 高良斎 KŌ

$4,950 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

First edition

Two fine full-page woodcuts. 18.5; 23; 32 folding leaves. 8vo, orig. pale green semi-stiff wrappers, title-slip on upper covers cover of Vol. I slightly soiled , new stitching. Osaka: Privately Printed for Chōzen dō School, Preface & Afterword dated 1837. First edition and very rare; we find no copy outside of Japan. Kō 1799-1846 studied Dutch medicine in Nagasaki and was one of von Siebold’s most prominent students. Because of his association with

• Binding: Wrappers

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