GUERIN, Pierre. Versuch über die Augenkrankheiten, worinn, nach vorhergegangener Erklärung der verschiedenen Arten der Operation des Staars, Frankfurt and Leipzig, Adam Friedrich Böhme, 1773, 8°, one folding engraved plate (light browning throughout), contemporary sheep, floral gilt spine. [NLM Eighteenth Century p. 189]

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GUERIN, Pierre. Versuch über die Augenkrankheiten, worinn, nach vorhergegangener Erklärung der verschiedenen Arten der Operation des Staars, Frankfurt and Leipzig, Adam Friedrich Böhme, 1773, 8°, one folding engraved plate (light browning throughout), contemporary sheep, floral gilt spine. [NLM Eighteenth Century p. 189]

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Guerin (1740-1827) worked at the Royal College of Surgeons in Lyon, and his work on diseases of the eye was first published in French in Lyon in 1769.

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