1793 1ed OPHTHALMOLOGY Ocular Eye Surgery Portuguese Medicine Lisbon Brazil

1793 1^ed OPHTHALMOLOGY Ocular Eye Surgery Portuguese Medicine Lisbon Brazil

 

‘The first Portuguese textbook of ophthalmology’! (Becker)

 

Joaquim Jose de Santa Anna was an 18^th-century Portuguese eye surgeon and oculist who published a the most important Portuguese treatise concerning eye health and medicine. ‘Elements of Ocular Surgery’ was a work which displayed instructional techniques of eye operations as well as medical philosophies of the time.

 

This 1793 first and only edition includes impressive illustrations of surgical instruments and a view of a surgeon operating on his patient.

 

Item number: #5787

Price: $950

 

SANTA ANNA, Joquim Jose de

 

Elementos de cirurgia ocular offerecidos a sua Alteza Real o Senhor D. João Principe do Brazil por Joaquim José de Santa Anna, lente oculista do Hospital real de S. José desta Corte

 

Lisboa, Na officina de Simão Thaddeo Ferreira, M. DCC. LXXXXIII. [1793].

 

Details:

• Collation: complete with all pages
  • VIII, 279, [1]
  • Signatures: pi⁴, A-2M⁴
  • 2 folding plates
• References: Wellcome V, p. 21;
• Language: Portuguese
• Binding: Leather; tight & secure
• Size: ~8in X 6in (20cm x 15cm)
• Auction records and price comparisons as high as $4,700

 

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