Oct 16, 2018 - Sale 2488

Sale 2488 - Lot 133

Price Realized: $ 650
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
LONGMORE, THOMAS. A Treatise on Gunshot Wounds. viii, 132 pages. Publisher's 6-leaf catalogue bound at end. 12mo, 185x119 mm, original cloth, light discoloration on covers, spine darkened, gilt lettering rubbed, ends worn; contents generally clean. Wells-Fargo Library Association bookplate and date due slip on front endpapers. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1863

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first american edition, intended for Union surgeons; second issue, with title dated 1863 instead of 1862. Longmore's manual first appeared in Volume 2 of Holmes and Hulke's System of Surgery (London, 1861). A condensed version was incorporated in the 1863 Manual of Military Surgeons published in Richmond for Confederate use. Rutkow I, GS56.1 note.