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CHEVALIER (Arthur), Manuel de l’étudiant oculiste. Traité pratique du choix des lunettes et de l’examen de l’oeil à l’aide de l’ophtalmoscope, etc, Paris, Adrien Delahaye, 1868.

8vo of (4), II,  242 and (2) pages ; original printed wrappers (joint of the first covert fragil).

First and unique edition of this very rare handbook by Arthur Chevalier on how to make lens of spectacles, the different type of lenses, the different ophalmolotogical instrument to determinate which kind of lens we have to choose, the different kind of lens and spectacles for presbyopia, myopia, asthenopia, amblyopia, cataract, astigmatism, strabismus and other conditions requiring the use of glasses.

The handbook is well illustrated with 93 engravings showing the anatomy of the eye, the different kind of lenses and the different kind of spectacles and the instruments for determining the type of eye deseases.

Copy, as published, partially uncut, in its original wrappers (fragil).