Pathologie iconographique du fond de l'oeil : traité d'ophthalmoscopie comprenant la théorie, la description et le mainiement des divers ophthalmoscopes, létude du fond de l'oeil normal et pathologique, un atlas de 40 sujets dessinés et coloriés d'après nature : atlas ... d'après les modèles originaux

Paris: Lauwereyns, 1870. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to (314 x 248 mm). Atlas only. [8], 48, [2] pp., including half title; text illustrations; 10 chromolithographed plates, each with explanatory text leaf. Modern black cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Text with occasional light foxing. Provenance: M. Saxtorph, Professor of Surgery, Copenhagen (visiting card to front-pastedown). Very good copy with stunning colours. ----

EXCEPTIONALLY RARE FIRST AND ONLY EDITION of this atlas of ophthalmic pathology by one of the pioneers of medical photography, Arthur de Montméja, an ophthalmologist at Paris Hospital Saint Louis, who began photographing patients in 1865. Montmeja was the leading publisher of medical and ophthalmic photography. In 1870 he published, with ophthalmologist Edouard Meyer, the world's first surgical textbook Traité des Operations qui se Pratiquent sur l'Oeil with close-up photographs of surgeries. It concluded with an atlas of 22 photographs and photo-montages, taken by de Montméja as prints on albumen paper from collodion glass negative. It would be almost 30 years before a similar work was produced in any surgical field. - Visit our website to see more images!