One finely hand-colored port. of the author & many full-page woodcuts (mostly hand-colored, one extending to three pages). 14 vols. 8vo, orig. wrappers, orig. block-printed title slips, new stitching. [Mito]: Jijuntei zo 自準亭藏, 1864 (verso of title); (from colophon in final vol.): Edo, Kyoto, & Osaka, Postscript in 14th vol. dated 1867.

First edition. Honma (1804-72), a member of a distinguished family of physicians, studied under Phillip Franz von Siebold, who had brought many printed Western works on medicine and surgery to Japan. Honma also learned anesthesia from Seishu Hanaoka, the first Japanese physician to master this specialty. In Nagasaki... More