original-confederate-army-field-surgery-manual
Lot 485
Original Confederate Army Field Surgery Manual
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
A Manual of Military Surgery, Prepared for the Use of the Confederate States Army. Illustrated. By Order of the Surgeon General (Richmond: Ayres & Wade, 1863), 297 pages plus 30 plates illustrating procedures, octavo, marbled paper wraps with linen spine. A cancelled Yale University Library plate is on the front pastedown, the book placed in a later gray linen protective wrap with gilt title on spine. Parrish & Willingham 1984.

Property from the Collection of Dr. & Mrs. Gimesh, Fayetteville, NC

Marbled boards each with a large hinge split; most of the plates are disbound as an intact signature; internally clean.

$1,000 - 2,000