(CIVIL WAR MEDICINE) Palmer B Frank The Palmer Arm and Leg

Sale 2533 - Lot 81

Price Realized: $ 1,188

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750

(CIVIL WAR--MEDICINE.) Palmer, B. Frank. The Palmer Arm and Leg, Adopted for the U.S. Army and Navy. Text illustrations. 48 pages. 8vo, original illustrated wrappers, both detached; minimal wear and soiling to contents. Philadelphia, 1865

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Consists mainly of artificial limb testimonials from satisfied customers from 1847 to 1865, many of them Civil War veterans. Our favorite is by Brigadier General William F. Bartlett on page 13, who lost his original leg at Yorktown in 1862, and then had his Palmer leg shot off at the Battle of the Crater: He expressed "satisfaction with the result of the test to which I have subjected it. It is not bullet-proof--few legs are!" No original copies listed in OCLC; none found at auction. With--carte-de-visite portrait of B. Frank Palmer by McAllister of Philadelphia, 1863.