Oct 16, 2018 - Sale 2488

Sale 2488 - Lot 131

Price Realized: $ 780
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
GUTHRIE, GEORGE JAMES. On Gun-Shot Wounds of the Extremities, requiring the Different Operations of Amputations, and their After-Treatment. 4 engraved plates. xxxii, 384, [10] pages. 8vo, 228x144 mm, 20th-century cloth; plates heavily foxed, light to moderate foxing of text, title stained and rehinged, small hole through a couple of letters on H1; uncut. Bookplate of Emanuel and Lillian Friedberg on otherwise blank verso of title, causing discoloration on recto. London: (Barnard and Farley for) Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1815

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first edition of the standard English-language work on the subject through the first half of the 19th-century, based on Guthrie's experiences during the Peninsular Campaign of the Napoleonic Wars. Garrison-Morton 2161; Norman 957.