KULMUS, Johann Adam (1689-1745). Kyurumusu kairaifu. Kyoto and Edo, 1826.
KULMUS, Johann Adam (1689-1745). Kyurumusu kairaifu. Kyoto and Edo, 1826.

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KULMUS, Johann Adam (1689-1745). Kyurumusu kairaifu. Kyoto and Edo, 1826.

Atlas volume only, accordion form, 264 x 185. 45 engraved plates and 3 leaves of text. Patterned boards.

Issued to supplement the 1812 revised and enlarged edition of the Kaitai Shinsho. The plates show considerably more detail than those in the original edition of Kaitai Shinsho. The thirteen text volumes published in the 1812 edition are not included. Mestler, "A Galaxy of Old Japanese Medical Books I," Bull. Med. Lib Assoc. XLII (1954) pp. 314-15.

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