BARTISCH, Georg. Ophthalmodouleia. Das ist Augendienst. Newer und wohlgegründter Bericht von Ursachen und Erkentnüs aller Gebrechen, Dresden: Matthes Stöckel, 1583, 2°, FIRST EDITION, title printed in red and black with woodcut border, woodcut arms to A2 recto, numerous large woodcut illustrations, one with 5 movable flaps, one with 6 movable flaps (outer margin of title torn with loss to border and laminated, title and A6 detached, E4 with the portrait of the author supplied in facsimile, hole to inner margin of M3, first few gatherings almost detached, marginal tears to first few leaves, several laminated repairs affecting text, leaves browned throughout), 19th-century morocco, parts of original covers relaid (worn). [Dawson 448: "one of the most remarkable illustrated books in early medical literature"; Durling 479; GM 5817; Norman 125; Waller 756; Wellcome I, 697]

细节

BARTISCH, Georg. Ophthalmodouleia. Das ist Augendienst. Newer und wohlgegründter Bericht von Ursachen und Erkentnüs aller Gebrechen, Dresden: Matthes Stöckel, 1583, 2°, FIRST EDITION, title printed in red and black with woodcut border, woodcut arms to A2 recto, numerous large woodcut illustrations, one with 5 movable flaps, one with 6 movable flaps (outer margin of title torn with loss to border and laminated, title and A6 detached, E4 with the portrait of the author supplied in facsimile, hole to inner margin of M3, first few gatherings almost detached, marginal tears to first few leaves, several laminated repairs affecting text, leaves browned throughout), 19th-century morocco, parts of original covers relaid (worn). [Dawson 448: "one of the most remarkable illustrated books in early medical literature"; Durling 479; GM 5817; Norman 125; Waller 756; Wellcome I, 697]

拍品专文

This treatise on ophthalmic surgery is the first extensively illustrated account of any surgical speciality. "Bartisch was a skilful operator and the first to practise the extirpation of the bulbus in cancer of the eye. The illustrations in his book form a comprehensive pictorial record of Renaissance eye-surgery; some of the woodcuts show the parts of the eye in various layers as they are viewed in dissection by means of movable anatomical flaps. This is one of the earliest uses of movable flaps to illustrate a medical book." (Garrison & Morton)