Ganka yakusetsu trans.: Summary of Ophthalmology

by Gen'yo Osanai

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First edition

22 finely hand-colored full-page woodcuts. 35; 39, 30 folding leaves. Three vols. 8vo, orig. wrappers some marginal worming in Vol. III , orig. block printed title label on each upper cover, new stitching. Tokyo: 1872. First edition in Japanese of this collection of translations from a variety of Western ophthalmological texts. NLM suggests the author was Paul Silex 1858-1929 , but this is clearly impossible. The present work is the earliest work

• Binding: Wrappers

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