Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1134

SAMUEL THOMAS VON SOEMMERRING (1755-1830) Abbildungen des menschlichen Auges. Varrentrapp und Wenner 1801 x, 110 pp., 8 plates, each accompanied by a duplicate outline plate, 1 in full color. 40.2 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 1130

Choulant calls this "Soemmerring's most perfect work." Front and profile views are shown of the living eye of a male, female, Negro, and an albino. Other plates are anatomic and partly microscopic. Of the sixteen plates, eight are outline keys.

Cited references: Choulant-Frank, p. 308; Garrison-Morton 1489; Waller 9046 (Latin ed., 1804)

Gift of John Martin, M.D.