Kaiba shinsho New Book on the Anatomy of the Horse

by Tosui Kikuchi

$7,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller · No longer available

First edition

18 woodcut illus. several color-printed . 23; 25 folding leaves. Two vols. 8vo, orig. yellow wrappers wrappers a little soiled , new stitching. Japan : Preface dated “1851,” published in 1852. First edition and very rare. Kikuchi fl. 1848-64 , was responsible for starting a new age of Japanese veterinary medicine see Alexander Kast, “Johannes Ludwig Janson, Professor of Veterinary Medicine in Tokyo in 1880-1902“ in Acta med-hist Adriat

• Binding: Wrappers

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