Mar 16, 2006 - Sale 2072

Sale 2072 - Lot 170

Price Realized: $ 201
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Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
GUTHRIE, GEORGE JAMES. A Treatise on Gun-Shot Wounds, on Inflammation, Erysipelas, and Mortification, on Injuries of Nerves, and on Wounds of the Extremities requiring the Different Operations of Amputation . . . Third Edition. 5 engraved plates. 8vo, early 20th-century buckram, unobtrusively varnished; contents toned and foxed variously affecting plates, scattered minor stains. Bookplate of G. N. J. Sommer, M.D. London, 1827

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"Guthrie's experiences as a battlefield surgeon during the Napoleonic Wars enabled him to make considerable improvements in practical surgery, particularly in the treatment of gunshot wounds requiring amputation of a limb; his book is one of the most important in the history of the subject"--Norman 957 (1815 original edition). Garrison-Morton 2161.