Kaitai hatsumō 解體發蒙 Explanation of Human Anatomy

by Sōshū 三谷笙洲 Mitani

$15,000 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

First edition

Many fine woodcuts printed in color, many with blind-embossing. Five vols. 8vo, orig. patterned, mica-speckled semi-stiff wrappers, title-slips on upper covers all rubbed or slightly defective , new stitching. Osaka: Uozaki Motosaburo 魚崎夲三郎 & four others & Kyoto: Nishimura Kichibei 西村吉兵衛, 1813. First edition of this important anatomical work which collects the records of three dissections performed in Kyoto in 1783, 1798, and 1802.

• Binding: Wrappers

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