BARTISCH, Georg (1537-1606). FQALMODOULEIA Das ist, Augendienst . Dresden: Matthes Stckel, 1583. 2 o (294 x 188 mm). Collation: A-D 6 E 4; A-Z 6 a-x 6 y 8; z 4 Aa 6. 310 leaves. Gothic type, foliated. Title printed in red and black within woodcut border (repeated in the preliminaries on C1r); large woodcut arms of Duke August of Saxony on A2r, fine full-page woodcut portrait of the author on E4v; numerous large woodcuts in the text (including a few repeats), woodcuts on A5r and B2v with overlays (five and six flaps, respectively), printer's woodcut device at end. (Some mostly marginal dampstaining at beginning and end, occasional light browning.) 17th-century German vellum over pasteboard, overlapping edges, manuscript lettering on spine (split in front joint); morocco folding case. Provenance : Georg Fyldar (contemporary signature and initials on title); Jorgen Fyldar and Joannes Fyldar (signatures on A2); Joannes Fyldar of Kronenberg, 1605 (inscription on a leaf of paper mounted on the front pastedown); Latin verses on Bartisch signed Joannes Fyldar (inscription on same mounted leaf); Stephanus Fyldar (inscription on same mounted leaf). The inscriptions indicate that the Fyldars were surgeons, and the occasional marginalia in this copy is presumably theirs. THE RARE FIRST EDITION OF THE MOST IMPORTANT RENAISSANCE WORK ON OPHTHALMOLOGY AND ONE OF THE EARLIEST SURGICAL WORKS PRINTED IN THE VERNACULAR. Bartisch's Ophthalmoduleia (eye care or Augendienst ) is the first modern work on eye surgery. "In this treaty on ophthalmic surgery Bartisch, who limited his practice to ophthalmology and hernia repair, left the first extensively illustrated account of any surgical specialty" (Garrison & Morton). Considered the founder of modern ophthalmology, Bartisch gained a reputation for his skilful operations on the cataract using a clean needle to depress the lens through the sclerotic. He became the court oculist to Duke August I of Saxony, to whom this work is dedicated. Bartisch employed numerous pioneering techniques in the treatment of the eyes, including both surgical and non-surgical methods. He was the first eye-doctor to recommend removal of the eye in cases of cancer. The striking woodcut illustrations, made after Bartisch's own drawings from life, provide a comprehensive pictorial record of Renaissance eye-surgery. The innovative and effective use of movable flaps to show sectional views of the brain and the eye appears here for the first time. BM/STC German p. 68; Choulant-Frank p. 234; Garrison-Morton 5817; Grolier Medicine 22; Heirs of Hippocrates 369; NLM/Durling 479; Waller 756; Wellcome 697; Norman 125.
BARTISCH, Georg (1537-1606). FQALMODOULEIA Das ist, Augendienst . Dresden: Matthes Stckel, 1583. 2 o (294 x 188 mm). Collation: A-D 6 E 4; A-Z 6 a-x 6 y 8; z 4 Aa 6. 310 leaves. Gothic type, foliated. Title printed in red and black within woodcut border (repeated in the preliminaries on C1r); large woodcut arms of Duke August of Saxony on A2r, fine full-page woodcut portrait of the author on E4v; numerous large woodcuts in the text (including a few repeats), woodcuts on A5r and B2v with overlays (five and six flaps, respectively), printer's woodcut device at end. (Some mostly marginal dampstaining at beginning and end, occasional light browning.) 17th-century German vellum over pasteboard, overlapping edges, manuscript lettering on spine (split in front joint); morocco folding case. Provenance : Georg Fyldar (contemporary signature and initials on title); Jorgen Fyldar and Joannes Fyldar (signatures on A2); Joannes Fyldar of Kronenberg, 1605 (inscription on a leaf of paper mounted on the front pastedown); Latin verses on Bartisch signed Joannes Fyldar (inscription on same mounted leaf); Stephanus Fyldar (inscription on same mounted leaf). The inscriptions indicate that the Fyldars were surgeons, and the occasional marginalia in this copy is presumably theirs. THE RARE FIRST EDITION OF THE MOST IMPORTANT RENAISSANCE WORK ON OPHTHALMOLOGY AND ONE OF THE EARLIEST SURGICAL WORKS PRINTED IN THE VERNACULAR. Bartisch's Ophthalmoduleia (eye care or Augendienst ) is the first modern work on eye surgery. "In this treaty on ophthalmic surgery Bartisch, who limited his practice to ophthalmology and hernia repair, left the first extensively illustrated account of any surgical specialty" (Garrison & Morton). Considered the founder of modern ophthalmology, Bartisch gained a reputation for his skilful operations on the cataract using a clean needle to depress the lens through the sclerotic. He became the court oculist to Duke August I of Saxony, to whom this work is dedicated. Bartisch employed numerous pioneering techniques in the treatment of the eyes, including both surgical and non-surgical methods. He was the first eye-doctor to recommend removal of the eye in cases of cancer. The striking woodcut illustrations, made after Bartisch's own drawings from life, provide a comprehensive pictorial record of Renaissance eye-surgery. The innovative and effective use of movable flaps to show sectional views of the brain and the eye appears here for the first time. BM/STC German p. 68; Choulant-Frank p. 234; Garrison-Morton 5817; Grolier Medicine 22; Heirs of Hippocrates 369; NLM/Durling 479; Waller 756; Wellcome 697; Norman 125.
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