Oct 17, 2011 - Sale 2256

Sale 2256 - Lot 203

Price Realized: $ 330
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Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
BARNES, JOSEPH K., editor. The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. Hundreds of plates, including chromolithographs, tinted lithographs, and mounted Woodburytypes from photographs; maps and charts; profusion of text illustrations. 5 (of 6) volumes; lacks Surgical History Volume 3. 4to, modern buckram; contents generally clean. Washington, 1870-88
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first edition; first issue of all but Medical Volume 2 and Surgical Volume 2. " . . . one of the most remarkable works ever published on military medicine" (Garrison-Morton), also noteworthy for incorporating photography and photo-mechanical reproduction on a scale then unprecedented in the history of medical illustration. Garrison-Morton 2171; also 5185 (J. J. Woodward's classic study of diarrhea and dysentery, constituting the whole of Medical Volume 2); Rutkow GS68; see The Truthful Lens 175.