Ganshō sai fukushinroku 含章斎腹診録 Ganshō’s Diagnosis of Abdomen Treatments, Listed

by Tōkaku 和田東郭 Wada

$3,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

First edition

14 full-page woodcuts. 50; 44.5 folding leaves. Two vols. 8vo, orig. semi-stiff patterned wrappers, title-slips on upper covers, new stitching. Kyoto & other cities: Hayashi Yoshibei 林芳兵衛 et al., 1850. First edition and rare; we find no copy outside of Japan. Published posthumously by disciples of Wada 1744-1803 , who was the physician to a number of aristocrats. His teacher was Yoshimasu Tōdō 吉益東洞 1702-73 , head of the Yoshimasu school

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