Beschrijving
Original publisher’s dark-red cloth hardback, gilt title spine and frontcover, pictorial dustjacket, large 4to: 286pp., 60 coloured plates & illustrations, preface in Japanese & in English, introductions of the two books with tables of contents and the main texts, notes on illustrations, note on the Japanese chronological system, general bibliography, index. Small tear in backcover dustjacket. Very fine copy – as new., Detailed description of Kaitai Shinsho [ = A New Book of Anatomy – 1774] & Geka Soden [ = Manuscript of Surgery – 1706].