TRAITE DES MALADIES DES YEUX, & DES MOYENS & OPERATIONS PROPRES A LEUR GEURISON. TOME PREMIER ET SECOND. (TWO VOLUMES)
Paris: Chez Claude J. B. Herissant, 1770.
Full Leather. First Edition. The French doctor, professor, and demonstrator of ophthalmology at the Ecole de Chirurgie, Louis Florent Deshais-Gendron’s Treatise on the Diseases of the Eye, which was ‘the first textbook on ophthalmology to appear since Maitre-Fan’s a half century before’ (IBBO p. 186). Complete in two volumes; text in French. Library stamps on the verso of the title and on one additional leaf of each volume/ Rebound in light brown calf with red leather labels. (Wayenborgh IBBO: International Biography and Bibliography of Ophthalmologists and Vision Scientists p. 186
Very Good binding.
Item #290016
Price: $500.00