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CHINESE MEDICINE CLEYER (ANDREAS, editor) Specimen medicinae sinicae, sive opuscula medica ad mentem sinensium, 4 parts in 1 vol., FIRST EDITION, Frankfurt, Johann Peter Zubrodt, 1682 image 1
CHINESE MEDICINE CLEYER (ANDREAS, editor) Specimen medicinae sinicae, sive opuscula medica ad mentem sinensium, 4 parts in 1 vol., FIRST EDITION, Frankfurt, Johann Peter Zubrodt, 1682 image 2
CHINESE MEDICINE CLEYER (ANDREAS, editor) Specimen medicinae sinicae, sive opuscula medica ad mentem sinensium, 4 parts in 1 vol., FIRST EDITION, Frankfurt, Johann Peter Zubrodt, 1682 image 3
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CHINESE MEDICINE
CLEYER (ANDREAS, editor) Specimen medicinae sinicae, sive opuscula medica ad mentem sinensium, FIRST EDITION, Frankfurt, 1682

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CHINESE MEDICINE

CLEYER (ANDREAS, editor) Specimen medicinae sinicae, sive opuscula medica ad mentem sinensium, 4 parts in 1 vol., FIRST EDITION, translated from the Chinese into Latin by Michael Piotr Boym, title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, 30 engraved plates (a few with rule border shaved at foot, some off-setting), numerous woodcut illustrations in the text, including Chinese symbols of the pulse, circulation of the blood and a full-page illustration of hands, 2 leaves of final section misbound, outer margins of 5 pages (n2-5) cropped touching letters, some gatherings browned, occasional light spotting, ?eighteenth century speckled boards, rubbed with small losses to joints, preserved in modern cloth case with gilt morocco spine label [Choulant-Frank, pp.362-369; Cordier Sinica II, 1470-71; Garrison-Morton 6492; Lust 1183; Krivatsy 1734-35; Lowendahl 174; Norman 489; Waller 9107], small 4to, Frankfurt, Johann Peter Zubrodt, 1682

Footnotes

FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST ILLUSTRATED WORK ON CHINESE MEDICINE TO BE PUBLISHED IN EUROPE. Edited by Andreas Cleyer, a physician in the employ of the Dutch East India Company, the texts are translated from the Chinese by the Polish Jesuit Michael Boym. These derive from a medieval writings of Mo chueh, primarily relating to the pulse, but touching on acupuncture, and traditional Chinese medicines. The fine engravings are copied from Chang Chieh-Pin's Lei ching (1624), including "the first acupuncture charts published in the West" (Norman), and the anatomy of various internal organs.

Provenance: Presentation inscription (Berlin, 15 January 1868) from Karl Friedrich Neumann (1793-1870, professor of Chinese studies at Munich University, having travelled to China from 1829 to 1833), to Ludwig Böhm (1811-1869, author of Die kranke Darmschleimhaut in der Asiatischen Cholera, 1838).

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