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SICHEL, Jules (1802-1868). Iconographie ophthalmologique. Paris: J.-B. Baillire et fils, 1852-59.
2 volumes (including plate atlas), large 4o (312 x 239 mm). Atlas containing 80 stipple engravings, mostly printed in color and finished by hand. (Some occasional pale spotting to text and plates, mostly marginal.) Contemporary French quarter morocco (extremities rubbed). Provenance: Acadmie de Chirurgie, Paris (stamp on titles). FIRST EDITION. "Probalby the most massive and detailed nineteenth-century work on ophthalmology, this is Sichel's magnum opus and is said to have taken twenty-five years to complete" (Heirs of Hippocrates 1641). Garrison-Morton 5868 ("This work and that of Ammon remain the greatest pre-ophthalmoscopic atlases of ophthalmology"); Waller 8910. (2)
2 volumes (including plate atlas), large 4o (312 x 239 mm). Atlas containing 80 stipple engravings, mostly printed in color and finished by hand. (Some occasional pale spotting to text and plates, mostly marginal.) Contemporary French quarter morocco (extremities rubbed). Provenance: Acadmie de Chirurgie, Paris (stamp on titles). FIRST EDITION. "Probalby the most massive and detailed nineteenth-century work on ophthalmology, this is Sichel's magnum opus and is said to have taken twenty-five years to complete" (Heirs of Hippocrates 1641). Garrison-Morton 5868 ("This work and that of Ammon remain the greatest pre-ophthalmoscopic atlases of ophthalmology"); Waller 8910. (2)