China.- Medicine.- Wenyin (Sun) Dantai yuan [The red platform and the jade desk], 6 vol., woodblock printed on bamboo paper, 9 columns per page, 20 characters per column, single-line borders, 73 illustrations, some splitting to fore-edge folds, the occasional light stain, otherwise very good, bound and stitched Japanese-style into modern blue wrappers, housed in a silk drop-back box, 8vo, China, Zhejiang, Shunzhi 17, Early Qing Dynasty [1660].*** With internal medicine, external medicine, gynecology and pediatrics in six chapters. The present example is from the second edition, the first edition published around the 10th year of the Chongzhen period (1637). Another edition was issued (probably illegally) by Cheng Erren of the Shulin Bookshop during the Chongzhen period. According to the preface, the author had the woodblocks re-carved by the Wufenglou Bookshop in 1660, the originals having been destroyed during the Manchurian invasion. Only one copy from the first edition has survived in the National Library of Taiwan; no identical copy of this present book can be found.