Sold for:
$930
$930
London: R. Chiswell, 1683. 12mo, rebound in 3/4 calf over cloth, gilt-lined, gilt-lettered red leather spine label, renewed endpapers. First edition of Ten Rhijne's treatise, which provided the western world with its first detailed description of Japanese and Chinese medicine. With four (of six) engraved plates and portrait frontispiece. Hinges cracked; plate 2 bound in; library stamp to f.f.e.p.; light soiling, concentrated at preliminaries; bookplate and library card holder tipped to pastedowns.
Auctioneer:
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
Date:
2011-11-15