[Rarebooks] FS: Important early work on ophthalmology. Florence: 1551

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(MEDICINE) Porzio [or Portius], Simone. TRATTATO DE COLORI DE GL’OCCHI... 
Tradotto in Volgare per Giovam Batista Gelli. Florence: Lorenzo Torrentino. 1551. 
First Italian edition. Sm. 8vo. 124pp. Decorative initials. Early vellum, ms. 
spine title. Some light text soiling. Early ownership signature on title, 
printed paper ownership label of Lodocivo Passerini on front pastedown. Bookplate 
of Jerry F. Donin.     $2,000.00 (trade discount allowed)
This work gives a detailed and careful account of the structure and 
physiology of the eye. It is one of the earliest attempts to explain the cause of the 
variety of colors of the eye. The first edition was printed in Latin in 1550. 
This 1551 Italian translation has a new 6-page introduction by G. B. Gelli, the 
translator. The author (1496-1554) was a lecturer in medicine at Pisa. BECKER 
COLLECTION IN OPHTHALMOLOGY #303; Albert, SOURCE BOOK OF OPHTHALMOLOGY #1839; 
Durling, NLM, #3743; Wellcome, I, #5219.

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