Das Ist Augendienst Newer Und Wolgegrundter Bericht Von Ursachen Und Erkentnus Aller Gebrechen

by Georg Bartisch

$135,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Dresden: Matthes Stöckel, 1583. / First edition, a very fine copy, of the founding monument of ophthalmology. Written by the Saxon court oculist Georg Bartisch 1535–c. 1607 in vigorous German vernacular and printed at Dresden in 1583, the Ophthalmodouleia is the first complete experience-based textbook of eye disease and surgery, with ninety-one large woodcuts after Bartisch's own drawings from life — including two composite flap

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