Fuei shinsetsu trans.: Manual of Gynecology, Obstetrics, and the Nursing Care of the Newborn

by Benjamin Hobson

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First edition

Many woodcut illus. in the text. In Chinese with Japanese reading marks. 47; 27 folding leaves. Two vols. 8vo, orig. wrappers Vol. II with some minor marginal worming , new stitching. Kyoto: 1859. First edition to be published in Japan of a quite fascinating book. Hobson 1816-73 , after studying medicine at University College, London, served with the London Missionary Society in China. Hobson arrived in Macao in 1839 and spent about twenty years

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