Jul 09, 2020 - Sale 2540

Sale 2540 - Lot 314

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Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
(JAPAN -- MEDICINE & OPTICS.) Rangaku scholar's manuscript journals. 2 volumes. 168; 92 manuscript pages including several sketches. 8vo format, 9x6 1/2 inches, original stitched light blue embossed wrappers with manuscript title labels, light wear; scattered worming to the optics volume. Japan, 1820
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Rangaku, or "Dutch learning" manuscript volumes influenced by the study of western sciences at Dejima in Nagasaki. The medicinal volume includes a sketch showing the distillation of medicine; the optics volume shows an example of a camera obscura and its workings.

together with: Syntaxis of Woordvoeging der Nederduitsche Taal. Woodblock volume of Dutch syntax for Japanese study. 8vo format, 10x7 inches, worn yellow wrappers with printed paper label, stitched on the left edge in the western style. Japan, Ansei 4 (1857).