
Second edition, revised, corrected and enlarged, illustrated with 145 figures in the text (cf. Wellcome II, 457).
Spine and covers browned, with minor marginal losses; a few light foxing spots.
The first edition was published in 1847; this work constitutes only the second systematic treatise in French devoted to the subject, following that of Carron du Villards.
A former assistant to Sichel, Louis-Auguste Desmarres (1810-1882) was among the foremost ophthalmic surgeons of the nineteenth century.