LIEBREICH Richard Atlas d’Ophthalmoscopie représentant l’état normal et les modifications pathologiques du fond de l’oeil visibles à l’ophthalmoscope.

Cf. Garrison-Morton, 5892 for the German edition 1863.

Richard Liebreich (1830-1917), German ophthalmologist and physiologist. In 1853 he earned his doctorate at Halle, and from 1854 until 1862 was an assistant to Albrecht von Graefe (1828-1870) in Berlin. He subsequently practiced medicine in Paris (from 1862) and London (from 1870), where he was head of ophthalmology at St. Thomas Hospital. In 1863 he published the highly acclaimed Atlas de l’Ophthalmoscopie. He was interested in the pathological changes of the eye as viewed through the ophthalmoscope, and in 1859 provided a classic description of ocular changes in Bright’s disease.

“First atlas of the fundus. The author was assistant to Helmholtz at the time of the invention of the ophthalmoscope” (Garrison-Morton). Some light overall toning, binding slightly rubbed, else a fine and complete copy with the plates in in fine and bright colours.