Ophthalmo-graphia, sive Oculi ejusque partium descriptio anatomica.

12mo: 312-[24] pp.

Contemp. calf, gilt orn. spine on 4 raised bands (def. at tail lacking some leather, sm. hole on upper band, endpapers lifted), sp. edges.

Second edition (first, 1676, London) of this English treatise on the anatomy of the eye by the physician and oculist Briggs (1642-1704). Illustrated with an engr. title and 3 fold. plates showing the anatomy of the eye. "Briggs described the papilla of the optic disc and hypothesized that vibrations caused by rays of light striking fibres of the retina were conveyed to the papilla and thence to the optic thalami, on the model of a spider's web" (Garrison & Morton).
Ref. STCN. - Wellcome II:238. - Krivatsy 1781. - Cp. Garrison & Morton 1481.2.
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Joined: Dussieux, L. - Le décaméron françois. Maestricht, J.-E. Dufour, 1773-1775. 2 vol., 8vo: xvi-[1-1 bl.]-292, [4]-272 pp. Contemp. mottled sheep (corners sl. bumped and rubbed), gilt orn. spines on 5 raised bands (def. at head and tails), red leather title labels, red edges. Containing 10 novelettes "galantes" stylistically reminiscent of Boccacio. Ref. STCN. - COPAC. (3 vol.)