Igaku hayagatten 醫學早合点 Introduction to Chinese Medicine

by Shunsen 源春泉 Minamoto

$2,950 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

First edition

15 full-page woodcut illus. 23; 31 folding leaves. Two vols. 8vo, orig. semi-stiff wrappers wrappers somewhat wormed , title-slips on upper covers, new stitching. Kyoto: Akitaya Tōbei 秋田屋藤兵衛, 1778. First edition of this very rare work on Chinese medicine, based on a series of lectures by Minamoto, who was probably a Kyoto physician. His disciples gathered their notes and published the present book, an introduction to traditional Chinese

• Binding: Wrappers

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