SOEMMERRING, Samuel Thomas (1755-1830). Description Figurée de l'Oeil Humain, translated by Antoine Demours, Paris: Firmin Didot, 1818, 4°, 27 engraved plates, 3 hand-coloured (occasional spotting), modern library cloth [cf. Norman 618]; together with 4 others on the eye, including Rosenmüller's Partium Externarum Oculi Humani (Leipzig, 1797). (5)

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SOEMMERRING, Samuel Thomas (1755-1830). Description Figurée de l'Oeil Humain, translated by Antoine Demours, Paris: Firmin Didot, 1818, 4°, 27 engraved plates, 3 hand-coloured (occasional spotting), modern library cloth [cf. Norman 618]; together with 4 others on the eye, including Rosenmüller's Partium Externarum Oculi Humani (Leipzig, 1797). (5)

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The first French translation of Soemmerring's foundation work on the eye was done by Demours in 1818 and included in the atlas of his 4 volume work Traité des Maladies des Yeux. This separate publication, published in the same year, is not listed in Waller.

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