Manuscript on paper, entitled on upper wrapper “Tōshin yōketsu” 痘疹要訣 “Smallpox & Measles Explained”

by Atsumasa 山辺篤 Yamabe, or Bunhaku, 文伯

$5,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

Two full-page drawings & 42 smaller drawings in the text. Three parts in one. 60 folding pre-printed leaves. 8vo 247 x 174 mm. , orig. wrappers, orig. stitching. Japan : ca. 1770s-80s.An unpublished manuscript by Yamabe, court doctor of the Nakatsu fiefdom in today’s Ōita Prefecture . He also published several works on Chinese medicine and gynecology. This is his main work on smallpox and measles, in which he focuses on the diagnosis, prognosis, and

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