Eye-opening images feature in German auction
An October 27-30 sale of more than 2800 lots at Reiss & Sohn of Königstein-im-Taunus includes a 1583 first of Georg Bartisch’s Opthalmodouleia…, a famous work on eye surgery that is also the first extensively illustrated account of any surgical speciality.
In a slightly later vellum binding, this copy has calligraphic replacements for a couple of text l…