Lot 166
Medicine, Acupuncture--Dujardin, François
Histoire de la chirurgie, depuis son origine jusqu'à nos jours. Paris: l'Imprimerie nationale, 1774, volume 1, 4to, 4 engraved plates, later quarter calf, marbled sides, red morocco label, title-page supplied in sympathetic facsimile
Estimate £150-250

Note: Garrison and Morton says Dujardin was the first European to discuss acupuncture within its historical context as an ancient remedy still found to be of practical value in a section on Chinese and Japanese surgery. A second volume was published posthumously in 1780. Garrison & Morton 6374.12.
Sold for £150