Nov 17, 2016 - Sale 2432

Sale 2432 - Lot 126

Price Realized: $ 358
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(CIVIL WAR--MEDICINE.) Barnes, Joseph K.; editor. The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. Hundreds of plates, including tinted and color lithographs by Bien and mounted woodburytypes. 5 (of 6) volumes, a mixed set of first and second issues, lacking Volume II-A. 4to, original publisher's cloth, worn, one volume rebacked; some toning, minor dampstaining. Washington, 1870-88

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"One of the most remarkable works ever published on military medicine"--Garrison-Morton 2171. Detailed case studies of thousands of named wounded soldiers, many of them gruesomely illustrated. Not for the faint of heart. Nevins, page I:18. with--a duplicate copy of volume I-B, rebacked.