Ganka yakusetsu [trans.: Summary of Ophthalmology]
by OSANAI, Gen'yo
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22 finely hand-colored full-page woodcuts. 35; 39, 30 folding leaves. Three vols. 8vo, orig. wrappers (some marginal worming in Vol. III), orig. block printed title label on each upper cover, new stitching. Tokyo: 1872.
First edition in Japanese of this collection of translations from a variety of Western ophthalmological texts. NLM suggests the author was Paul Silex (1858-1929), but this is clearly impossible. The present work is the earliest work published in Japan on Western techniques in ophthalmology, preceding the Ika zensho ganka-hen of 1879 (see Mestler, A Galaxy of Old Japanese Medical Books, IV, p. 336.
The attractive plates, all finely hand-colored, depict ophthalmological instruments and a series of surgical procedures.
Fine and fresh set.
First edition in Japanese of this collection of translations from a variety of Western ophthalmological texts. NLM suggests the author was Paul Silex (1858-1929), but this is clearly impossible. The present work is the earliest work published in Japan on Western techniques in ophthalmology, preceding the Ika zensho ganka-hen of 1879 (see Mestler, A Galaxy of Old Japanese Medical Books, IV, p. 336.
The attractive plates, all finely hand-colored, depict ophthalmological instruments and a series of surgical procedures.
Fine and fresh set.
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- Ganka yakusetsu [trans.: Summary of Ophthalmology]
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- OSANAI, Gen'yo
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