SAINT-YVES, Charles de

8°, xl-[8]-276-[17-1 bl.], 25 (of 27) pp., some leaves at the end loosing. Contemp. mottled calf, gilt orn. spine with 5 raised bands, red edges (rubbed). Later ed. (1st 1722) by the French ophthalmologist Saint-Yves (1667-1731), famous for his treatment of the cataract. Bound with at the end, as it should be, a treatise by Hans Sloane about a very efficacious remedy for the weakness and redness of the eyes, and other diseases of the same organ, without the fold. plate (as often). With an infallible remedy against the bite of the rabid dog