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Title: A Description of a new Method of opening the Cornea, in order to extract the crystalline Humour. [Bound with]: A Second Account of the new Method of opening the Cornea, for taking away the Cataract Author: Sharp, Samuel Place: London Publisher: Date: 1753 Description: Two titles, both extracted from the Philosophical Transactions from 1753. Various paginations. Bound together in a modern three-quarter tan calf and marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt. First title extracted from the Philosophical Transactions for April 12, 1753 (pp. 161-163); the second work from the November 22, 1753 issue (pp. 322-331). First editions. In Sharp’s great work, A Treatise on the Operations of Surgery, 1739, three chapters were devoted to ophthalmologic topics including extraction of cataract. His new methods he outlined in these two papers which first appeared here in the Philosophical Transactions. Lot Amendments Condition: A few small spots to binding; marginal dampstain within; very good. Item number: 276358