Mar 08, 2007 - Sale 2107

Sale 2107 - Lot 3

Price Realized: $ 184
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
ARMY MEDICAL MUSEUM, U. S. Catalogue of the Surgical Section of the United States Army Museum . . . by Alfred A. Woodhull * Catalogue of the Medical Section of the United States Army Museum . . . by . . . J. J. Woodward. 5 plates * Catalogue of the Microscopical Section of the United States Army Museum . . . by . . . Edward Curtis. Plate. Together, 3 volumes in one. 4to, contemporary 1/2 leather, worn, rebacked with buckram; contents dampstained, old pencil notes on half-title of first work. Washington, 1866-67-67

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"The AMM (Army Medical Museum), perhaps the greatest medical legacy of the Civil War, developed into the now world-famous AFIP (Armed Forces Institute of Pathology) which has been directly and indirectly responsible over the last 120 years for many advances in medicine . . . The AMM was also responsible for the development of clinical, pathologic, and photomicrography during the Civil War . . . The first publication that actually gives an idea as to the number and type of photographs taken by or for army physicians is The Catalogue of the Surgical Section . . . published in 1866"--Burns, Early Medical Photography in America, pages 1452-53 and 1454-55.