[Rarebooks] FS: The first American book on ophthalmology. Baltimore: 1823

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(MEDICINE) Frick, George. A TREATISE ON THE DISEASES OF THE EYE; Including the Doctrines and Practice of the Most Eminent Modern Surgeons, and Particularly Those of Professor Beer. With an Engraving. Baltimore: Fielding Lucas, Jun. 1823. 8vo. xix,(1),320pp. With the half-title. Folding copper plate of 9 surgical instruments bound at the end. Orig. mottled calf, nicely rebacked to style, old spine label laid down. With the cont. rubber stamp and signature of "Dr. R. Fuller."    $1,500.00 (trade discount allowed)
First edition of the first important American textbook of ophthalmology. Frick (1793-1870) a Baltimore physician was also the first American M.D. to restrict his practice to Ophthalmology. He was a student of the great German ophthalmologist Georg Joseph Beer (d. 1821). See GM 5844. THE BECKER COLLECTION OF OPHTHALMOLOGY only records the London 1826 edition (#142).

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