Nouveau traité des maladies des yeux. Où l'on expose leur structure, leur usage, les causes de leurs maladies, leurs symptômes, les remedes & les opérations de chirurgie qui conviennent le plus à leur guérison. Avec de nouvelles découvertes [...]. Nouvelle édition, augmentée de l'histoire d'un remède pour les maux des yeux, & contre la morsure du chien enragé.

8vo: xl-[8]-276-[17-1 bl.], 27 pp.

Contemp. mottled calf, gilt orn. spine with 5 raised bands, marbled edges (corners rubbed and bumped, joints rubbed, some sm. holes touching the upper joint).

Later ed. (1st 1722) by the French ophthalmologist Saint-Yves (1667-1731), famous for his treatment of the cataract. Bound with at the end, as it should be, a treatise by Hans Sloane about a very efficacious remedy for the weakness and redness of the eyes, and other diseases of the same organ, without the fold. plate (as often). With an infallible remedy against the bite of the rabid dog.
Ref. Cp. BnF. - Wellcome V:9. - Blake 398.
Prov. Felix? (partly deleted ms. entry on title).