De Cataractis. A Roman account of cataracts and their removal.

(Solmentes Press.) CELSUS (Aurelius Cornelius)

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A beautiful production from Esslemont, inspired by personal experience, in his usual eclectic style, continuing his practice of animating older texts with new techniques. The book containing the 'De Cataractis' chapter is a fifteenth-century copy of De Medicina from the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, while the woodcuts are from Gregor Reisch's Margarita Philosophic, 1503, and the digital flowers from Esslemont's own Florilegium Solmente, 2010. 'I hope the curious will find Celsus's description an interesting read and enjoy lifting the veils of Gampi paper to reveal the effect of phacoemulsification with intraoculaur lens Model DCB00 implantation.' (Introduction)

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10/30 COPIES numbered and signed by the designer and printer, David Esslemont, printed in Centaur MT, on Moab Entrada, double and single page reproduction of 'De Cataractis' chapter, two single page vibrant digitally created flowers, each with blurred version printed on Kitakata Gampi paper, woodcuts on title and colophon, colour photographic illustration of trees in snow, pp. [20], folio, original yellow card wrappers, with deep blue Lokta dust wrappers, cover with title and eye woodcut printed in black, fine

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