Jing xue zuan yao trans. in Japanese: Keiketsu san’yo; trans.: Chinese & Japanese Acupuncture explained

by Eisho Kosaka, or Gen’yu

$8,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller · No longer available

First edition

Numerous fine woodcut illus. 18 of which are finely handcolored . 48 irregularly paginated ; 33; 39; 26; 28, 3 folding leaves. Five vols. 8vo, orig. wrappers some worming in upper margin of each vol. , orig. block printed title label on each upper cover, new stitching. Tokyo: Mankyudo Hanabusa Heikichi, Preface dated 1810 . First edition of one of the three most important early Japanese books on the history and technique of Chinese and Japanese

• Binding: Wrappers

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