Shelfmark
Lt.2.36
Author
Uniform title
[De medicina. Selections. English and Latin]
Title
De cataractis : a Roman account of cataracts and their removal.
Publication, distribution, etc.
[Decorah, Iowa] : Solmentes, MMXXIII [2023]
Physical description
[16] p., [2] leaves of plates : col. ill., facsims. ; 38 cm.
Note
Includes facsimiles of three pages from a digital edition at the Library of Congress of a 15th-century copy of Aurelius Cornelius Celsus' 1st-century medical treatise "De medicina" in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence.
Note
Includes Latin transcript from William Thayer's online edition with additions by David Esslemont, and English text from James Greive's translation of "Of medicine" (1814).
Note
Illustrations include woodcuts from Gregor Reisch, Margarita philosophica (1503) and digital art from David Esslemont, Florilegium Solmentes (2010).
Note
"The paper is Moab Entrada interleaved with Kitakata Gampi and sewn in Colorplan with Lokta wrappers."--colophon.
Note
Two leaves of plates printed on translucent paper "to reveal the effect of phacoemulsification with intraocular lens Model DCB00 implantation"--Introduction.
Note
Edition limited to 30 copies.
Note
Sewn in plain yellow card covers with printed blue tissue paper wrappers.
Copy-specific note
ECL copy is no. 16, inscribed by David Esslemont "for ny friends at Eton, May 2025".
Subject
Subject
Cataract Surgery History.
Genre/Form
Illustrated works.
Genre/Form
Artists' books.
Genre/Form
Private press books.
Added entry--name
Esslemont, David artist.
Added entry--name
Esslemont, David printer.
Added entry--name
Greive, James, ? - d. 1773 translator.
Added entry--name
Solmentes Press publisher.
Added entry--place
United States Iowa Decorah.
Language code
eng lat lat
Identifier
B54158