Louis-Auguste DESMARRES - Lot 240

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Louis-Auguste DESMARRES - Lot 240
Louis-Auguste DESMARRES Traité théorique et pratique des maladies des yeux Editions Germer Baillière - Paris, 1854. In-8 - 3 volumes. Cartonnage de l'époque. Coins émoussés. Deuxième édition, en grande partie originale comprenant de nombreuses figures dans le texte. "Originally published in one volume in 1847, the three volume second edition was almost completely rewritten with numerous additions made to the text. In this latter edition Desmarres was able to include descriptions of pathological states made possible only by the use of the ophthalmoscope, the description of which had just been published by Helmholtz in 1851. The first volume is introduced by an anatomical description of the eye translated from the German of Ernst Wilhelm Brücke (1819 -1892) " (Becker 103). [IVpp] ; 636pp. (IVpp) ; 598pp. [XIpp] ; 816pp.
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