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Page from Bartisch's Ophthalmodouleia
PHOTOGRAPHS
photograph (b+w)
Europe: United Kingdom, England, London WC2
c.2000?
paper
overall: 254 x 202 mm
2007.933
PHOTOGRAPHS
photograph (b+w)
Europe: United Kingdom, England, London WC2
c.2000?
paper
overall: 254 x 202 mm
Black and white photograph reproducing page 31 from a first edition (1583) of Georg Bartisch's 'Ophthalmodouleia' showing the illustration of a man wearing nose spectacles whilst reading a book and possibly a pair of leather mounted goggles on the table in front of him. From one of the two copies in the rare books collection of the British Optical Association Museum and Library.
2007.933