Untitled scroll on fine paper, containing 172 fine brush & ink drawings of bandaging techniques

by Western Techniques Bandaging

$3,750 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller · No longer available

Scroll 298 x 7160 mm. , gold-flecked inner front endpaper. Japan : late Edo. Laurent Heister’s great Chirurgie 1st ed.: 1718 , one of the most important 18th-century surgery textbooks, went through many editions and translations. We know that a copy of the second Dutch edition of 1755, translated by Hendrik Ulhoorn, had been brought to Dejima in Nagasaki, where it was much studied, copied, and translated by Japanese doctors for the next 75

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