Author: POULET, W.- Wayenborgh.-
Title: Atlas on the history of spectacles. Transl. by Professor Frederick C.Blodi, MD, Iowa University Hospitals.
Description: Bonn - Bad Godesberg, Wayenborgh Verlag, 1978. - 1980. Vol. I and II. Vol. 1 with over 2000 illustrations (pp. 309 - 332 in full colour); vol. 2 with appr. 300 b/w ills. often full page. Original blue publisher's cloth. (XXXVI, 396 pp.; 494 pp.). Vol. I includes a short history of spectacles by H.W.Holtman and illustrates some 2000 specimina of spectacles, of which 1500 originate from the Oberkochen Museum Collection, a museum for optical instruments. At the core of this collection is the collection of Otto and Gustav Kröner, opticians from Munich, 'who for decades dedicated their expertise and enthusiasm to the collection. The Museum is complemented by the collections of Zeiss, Zeiss-Ikon and Voigtlander, as well as the collection of the Viennese court optician, Waldstein. The most beautiful examples of these collections are illustrated in this Atlas. ... The main part of the Museum for optical instruments at Oberkochen is a collection of spectacles. They are arranged in such a way that their development can be followed in a number of ways, for instance riveted spectacles, pince-nez, wire-rimmed spectacles, spectacles with side bars, spectacles with curved ear pieces or spectacles of wood, leather, fish bone, horn, acetate, wire or of precious metal.': Vol. 2 '... presents a variety of spectacles as illustrated in paintings, etchings sculptures, etc.'. The items in vol. 2 from the Oberkochen coll., Otto Hallauer coll. and Pierre Marly collection.

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