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Shinka yōketsu 診家要訣 [Essential Methods of the Diagnosticians] by TAKEDA, Kōhō 竹田公豐, ed

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Title: Shinka yōketsu 診家要訣 [Essential Methods of the Diagnosticians]
Author: TAKEDA, Kōhō 竹田公豐, ed
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: Three full-page woodcut illus. 81.5; 62; 81 folding leaves (pagination continuous). Three vols. Large 8vo, orig. semi-stiff patterned wrappers, orig. title slips on covers, orig. stitching. Osaka, Kyoto, & Tokyo: Kawachiya kihei 河內屋喜兵衛 et al., 1793. Second edition (1st ed.: 1787) of this collection of three medical works passed down in the Takeda family of physicians. The book is very rare; we find no copy in North America in WorldCat. The first of the three works, “Magical Method for Investigating the Pulse” 察脈神訣, is ascribed here to Liu Kai 劉開 of the Yuan era, with explanations attributed to Xiong Jun 熊均 of the Ming dynasty. “From the discussions of the many pulses by the former worthies, this book excerpted the four of the shallow, deep, slow, and numerous, and distinguished them clearly. The writing is simple and suitable for the beginner learner,” according to the Preface by Tachibana asomi Masatomi 橘朝臣正福, dated 1789. The second work, “Rules for Diagnostics Explained by the Ancients” 古訓診式, was compiled by Kōhō’s father, Takeda Kōdō 竹田公道 (d. 1751), supplemented by Kōhō. At the end of the text, there is appended a “Secret Method of the Hidden Pulse” 隱脈秘訣. This method had been acquired by Kōhō’s ancestor, who had “travelled west to the Ming and obtained it,” according to Tachibana’s Preface. Takeda Teizen 竹田定前, in his Preface, dated 1793, specifies that the ancestor was well versed in “yin-yang literature, and thus started to take an interest in the art of medicine. At this time, he worried that this country lacked good doctors, so he sailed out to sea and entered the Great Ming. He travelled to the home of the Daoist master Jinweng 金翁, who transmitted all of his craft. He then obtained his writings in a number of juan, and returned to our August Japan.” Tachibana continues by saying that the texts he was talking about were “kept secret among their papers for generations and were not disseminated into the world.” Yet Kōhō, whose “duty was to practice medicine in the realm, did not dare to keep this book to himself. He wanted to make it public to the world in order to aid the masses of the realm.” The third work, “Essentials for Examining the Stomach” 診腹精要, was written by Takeda Teikai 竹田定快, Kōhō’s great-grandfather. Teikai had read widely in the extant literature on examining the stomach, in which the process is described in detail. “The late master thought about it for a long time,” the 1793 Preface explains, “then, by chance, he acquired a small booklet of which he had not verified the author. He relied on this book, mined the ancient books, and searched the various theories, adding to it from his own experience. It can safely be said that the method of examining the stomach is most complete” in this work. Takeda Kōhō (d. 1794) and his father were both physicians in Edo. In addition to the aforementioned Prefaces, there is one by Kōhō, dated 1788. The first work has an additional Preface by Kōhō, dated 1787. The second one has a Preface dated 1790 and a colophon, likewise by Kōhō, dated 1787. The third work has a Preface by its author, dated 1626. Very fine set. The original title slips on the volumes have been misplaced, so that Vol. 3 is marked as Vol. 2 and vice versa.

Album of letters to Robert McNamara, from American government or world leaders, including Earl Warren, Indira Gandhi, Walter Mondale, Dean Rusk, Henry Ford II, Henry Kissinger, Nelson Rockefeller, Katherine Graham, Coretta Scott King, and more by (McNamara, Robert (1916-2009))

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Title: Album of letters to Robert McNamara, from American government or world leaders, including Earl Warren, Indira Gandhi, Walter Mondale, Dean Rusk, Henry Ford II, Henry Kissinger, Nelson Rockefeller, Katherine Graham, Coretta Scott King, and more
Author: (McNamara, Robert (1916-2009))
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller (United States)
Condition: In blue plastic folder, Generally in fine condition
Description: vp, vd. 8vo & 4to. In blue plastic folder, Generally in fine condition. 8vo & 4to. Including: Walter Mondale. TLS 1 page April 6, 1983. reading in part, "President Reagan's defense buildup is outsized and wasteful by any measure. Leading members of his own party concur on this judgement..." Another Mondale 1 page TLS Januray 1, 1983 on regime change in South Africa reading in part, "The only question is whether it will be evolutionary or revolutionary. The latter would be an unspeakable tragedy for all peoples of southern Africa..." Dean Rusk. 1 page TLS. May 8, 1972. Reading in part "I still haven't made up my mind whether to appear in connection with Pentagon Papers. I don't relish the idea, but I am a bit bothered by the absence of any voice representing the Kennedy and Johnson administrations..." Henry Kissinger, ANS Nov. 3, 1969. Signed "Henry" "I am sending you an advanced copy of tonight's address on Vietnam, together with a speech outline and background paper." This would be Nixon's November 3, 1969: Address to the Nation on the War in Vietnam McGeorge Bundy 2 TLSs Dec, 20, 1971 & May 5, 1971. About talking to Kissinger about McNamara's thought on sub-continent John Califano. TLS. To McNamara. June 26, 1969. Sending a long a rebuttal to Washington Post article of June 23, 1969. 5 pages criticizing McNamara. with another sending Memoirs Sept 10, 2008. John Connally. 1 page. TLS. 1 page on Sec. of Treasury letterhead June 3, 1972. Thanking him for his praise. Henry Ford. TLS. 1 page on the effect actions taken by the Ford Foudation affects the sales of Ford Motor Co. Averell Harriman, 2 ANS on printed cards of thanks for condolence about Marie, Averell's wife Earl Warren. TLS. 1 page. June 26, 1969. Thanking him for hsi thoughtful letter on his retirement from the Supreme Court. April 5, 1971. To Margaret and Bob, thanking them for a silver dish which is a replica of the Kennedy half dollar Indira Gandhi ; April 3, 1969: TLS. On World Bank's assitance in attaining self-suffiency in domestic fertilizer and the Goa project and Mangalore Project. Another: April 1, 1972. Thanking him for his good wishes for the election which she says were overwhelming and indicate the India people wish for piece. U Thant: thanking him for lunch and the importance of the World Bank (i.e. Internatioanl Bank for Reconstruction and Development ) of which McNamara was Presidsent and the UN working together Also included are copies of Califano's letter to the editor of the Washington Post, a speech by Katharine Graham about McNamara, and a photocopy of an annotated 2-page speech (n.d.) by McNamara, 4 memos, 7 photocopies of letters by McNamara or his secretary, a photocopy of a photograph of McNamara marching, a color copy of McNamara's 1982 Einstein Peace Prize, 11 miscellaneous items related to McNamara's honorary degree from Oxford (1987), and a New Year's card from King Hussein with a family photo.

Science: An Illustrated Journal: Vol. III (January - June 1884) and Vol. IV (July - December 1884)

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Title: Science: An Illustrated Journal: Vol. III (January - June 1884) and Vol. IV (July - December 1884)
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Condition: VG- (Ex-lib., usual markings, inkstamp inside front and back covers;A few small tears to pages here and there; Pages have a ligh
Description: Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Science Company, 1884. Hardcover. VG- (Ex-lib., usual markings, inkstamp inside front and back covers;A few small tears to pages here and there; Pages have a light vertical crease running down the middle). Blue cloth over boards, library binding; 802 pp. (vol. III), 583 pp. (vol. IV); Scattered bw figures throughout. The 1884 issues of Science: An Illustrated Journal.

An Inquiry Into the Principles and Policy of the Government of the.. by Taylor, John of Caroline

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Title: An Inquiry Into the Principles and Policy of the Government of the..
Author: Taylor, John of Caroline
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Description: 2013. ISBN-13: 9781886363465; ISBN-10: 1886363463. Taylor, John. An Inquiry into the Principles and Policy of the Government of the United States. Originally published: Fredericksburg: Green and Cady, 1814. With an introduction by Roy Franklin Nichols, Yale University Press, 1950. 562 pp. Reprinted 1998, 2013 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781886363465; ISBN-10: 1886363463. Hardcover. New. $49.95 * Taylor wrote this important work in 1814 as a reply to John Adams's Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America. Unlike Adams, he rejects the concept of "a natural aristocracy" of "paper and patronage" and a federal government based on a system of debt and taxes. He considers the American government to be one of divided powers responsible to the sovereign people alone. Opposed to the extent of power awarded to the executive office, he calls for shorter terms for the president and all elected officers. Charles Beard said this work "deserves to rank among the two or three really historic contributions to political science which have been produced in the United States." Originally published in 1814, this is a reprint of the 1950 Yale University Press edition with an introduction by Roy Franklin Nichols. JOHN TAYLOR [1753-1824] was known as "John Taylor of Caroline County, Virginia." He served in the Continental Army and later in the Virginia House of Delegates, then served three terms as a member of the United States Senate. He is considered to be one of the greatest philosophers of agrarian liberalism and was one of the first proponents of states' rights. His works include New Views of the Constitution of the United States (1823), Construction Construed, and Constitutions Vindicated (1820) and A Defence of the Measures of the Administration of Thomas Jefferson, By Curtius (1804). Dictionary of American Biography IX:331. Sabin, A Dictionary of Books Relating to America 94491. Cohen, Bibliography of Early American Law 5823.

Two Antique Cross-Stitched Bookmarks by [Americana; ephemera; hand-made crafts; folk art]

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Description: America, late 1800s or early 1900s. Ephemera. Good+. Two bookmarks, both with a floral motif and the sentiment "Forget Me Not" cross-stitched onto heavy cardstock and mounted to silk ribbon. (One adds the initials "JD.") Ribbons soiled, wrinkled, frayed, but cross-stitch in good condition.

How They Think

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Title: How They Think
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Description: npl: npub, 1970. 8.5x14 inch corner stapled sheets; middle fold, minor bit of foxing on last sheet, else very good. Anti-Vietnam War text. Quotes from Dr. John Foster, Dr. Edward Teller, Dr. Harold Agnew, Glenn Seaborg, and Michael May of various political statements on warfare, international relations with Vietnam and the Soviet Union, and atomic weapons. "Listen to these men... In their writings and in testimony before Congress, they have taken pains to make clear their role and intent, and that of the institutions with which they are associated, in insuring the military and technical superiority of the U.S. and in pursuing what can only be called a "genocidal" war against the people of Indochina.

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