MS Japanese 131

A woodblock printed Japanese edition of Quanti xinlun, a treatise on physiology by Benjamin Hobson (1816-73) translated into Chinese by Chen Xiutan. This copy was published in Japan in 1857 in the original Chinese translation with minimal kunten, but was originally published in Canton in 1851, and in the 1870s two separate Japanese translations were subsequently published.

Japan, 1857

Material: paper; ２冊（２巻・附図巻２巻) | 2 volumes (in 2 sections); binding dimensions: height 223mm, width 157mm, depth 8mm

Literary Chinese