Beschreibung:

Title: Essai sur Quelques Points de l’Histoire de la Cataracte... Author: Maunoir, Théodore Place: Paris Publisher: Didot le Jeune Date: 1833 Description: 96 pp. (4to) lacking the original lavender wrappers, with remains on spine. First Edition. With a signed presentation inscription from Maunoir to Monsieur le Professor Desault (?) on the title-page. Maunoir (1806-1869), the nephew of J.P. Maunoir, was a Geneva surgeon who received his M.D. in 1833 in Paris with this dissertation on cataract. Albert, Norton, & Hurtes, Source Book of Ophthalmology, pp. 220-221 & No. 1525. Becker Collection, p. 155. Wellcome, IV, p. 84. Not in Waller or Pauly. Lot Amendments Condition: Some light foxing, moderate soiling to first and last leaves; very good. Item number: 277367