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OSANAI, Gen'yo.

Ganka yakusetsu [Summary of Ophthalmology].

Tokyo: 1878.

2nd Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. Item #002861

3 Volumes. Tokio, Meiji 11 (1878). (227 x 148 mm). 22 finely hand-colored full-page woodcuts on 13 folding plates. 35; 39, 30 folding leaves. Xylographically printed and stack-folded double leaves in Japanese stitched binding. Grey original wrappers with xylographic title tag (little soiled and rubbed, stitching partly defect). Internally crisp with only very little paper browning. Final leaf of each volume with red ownership seal. ----

Second edition in Japanese, first published in 1872 (Meiji 5), of this collection of translations from a variety of Western ophthalmological texts. The hand-colored plates depict a range of diseases, ophthalmological instruments and surgical procedures. According to NLM the author is Paul Silex (1858-1929), but this is certainly wrong. The present work was probably mistaken for his "Compendium der Augenheilkunde" (Berlin 1891). See G. E. Mestler, A Galaxy of Old Japanese Medical Books With Miscellaneous Notes on Early Medicine in Japan, IV, p. 336). - Visit our website for additional images and information.

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