Francfort, Johann Peter Zubrodt, 1682.
4to (200x160 mm), (4)-48-99-(9)-54-(2 bl.)-16 pages and 30 plates. binding : Modern vellum, antic style. Two first and last leaves repaired on margins.
The table of the treatise on the pulse cropped touching last letters.
A brown stain at the top of the first and last leaves.
Paper with foxings/.
references: Garrison-Morton [6492 :" One of the earliest studies of Chinese medicine published in the West. Cleyer edited these translations of Chinese medical texts, reproducing a series of 30 plates dealing with Chinese pulse-lore. Acu-tracts are illustrated but no acu-points. The book concerns Chinese doctrines of the pulse rather than acupuncture. "]
Norman [489 :"The book's thirty remarkable plates, taken from Chang Chieh Pin's Lein ching (1624), represent the first acupuncture charts published in the West; unfortunately, these were dubbed "anatomical" by Western writers, causing much confusion and misguided criticism. Cleyer's work provoked much interest in the West, particularly in England"].
provenance: Signed on front fly leaf (restored leave) by Thomas Pettigrew (1791-1865) famous surgeon and antiquarian specialized in mummies. Several hadwritten ex libris on title page and blanks from english family. Bookplate unidentified with antelope.
Price : 9000 €