Zinn, Johann Gottfried

DESCRIPTIO ANATOMICA OCULI, HUMANI ICONIBUS ILLUSTRATA

      Goettingen. 4to. 7 engraved b/w plates. (14), 272 pp. First edition of the landmark book on the anatomy of the eye. "Zinn published a fine atlas of the human eye; he was the first adequately to describe the 'zonule of Zinn' and the 'annulus of Zinn.'" - Garrison-Morton 1484. This is an excellent copy in early or contemporary paper-covered boards. The seven plates are clean and fresh, with no tanning, foxing or offsetting. This copy bears the ownership signature of "Christopher Johnston, MD/Baltimore 1868." He later donated the book to the Johns Hopkins Library, from which it was withdrawn. His gift bookplate is on the front pastedown.