A treatise on the diseases of the eye.

221 x 133 mm. 8vo. xiv, 741, [1] pp. 104 figs., 3 (of 6) chromo-lithographic plates, index. Un-bound, loosely laid in a handsome cloth drop-back box with brown cloth spine label, gilt spine. Ex library rubber stamps of the Clinton Hall Association, New York. Bookplate. Very good (but lacking plates no. 2, 5, 6). FIRST EDITION. "Often regarded as the best work on the diseases of the eye then extant in the English language." Becker Collection. Dedicated to Albrecht von Graefe. J. Soelberg Wells took the M.D. at the University of Edinburgh in 1856 and spent several years in Berlin as student and assistant of von Graefe. In 1860, Wells joined the staff at Moorfields in London, first as clinical assistant to Bowman and from, 1867 until his death, as surgeon. In 1865 Wells became professor of ophthalmology at King's College, London. Albert, et al, Source book of ophthalmology, 2495 (Philadelphia, 1869); Becker Collection 413 (Philadelphia, 1883); Gorin, History of ophthalmology, pp. 72, 172; Hirsch, VI, p. 235; Hirschberg VIIIa, p. 278. First Edition.

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Publisher: John Churchill and Sons, 1869.

Year: 1869

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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