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BARNES, Joseph K. The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1875-1888.
6 volumes, 4o (292 x 238 mm). Numerous chromolithographed, tinted lithographed, and Woodburytype photographic plates. Original green cloth, gilt-lettered on spine (joints of most volumes cracked, hinges cracked, spine of part 3 of the surgical volume torn). Provenance: C.G. Carleton (embossed stamp on title-pages, given to); Lawrence Public Library (bookplates, gift inscription on front free endpapers, ink stamp on title-pages).
THE DEFINITIVE WORK ON MEDICINE PRACTICED DURING THE CIVIL WAR. Mixed issue: Surgical volume part 2 and Medical volume part 2 are first issue; Surgical volumes part 1 and 3 and Medical volume part 1 are second issue; Medical volume part 3 with no issue noted. This massive work has been called "the first comprehensive American medical book," of inestimable value for its great quantity of information and illustrations. The original illustrations, done by two immigrant German painters--Herman Faber and Edward Stauch--reproduced in chromolithography and engraving, are landmarks in American medical illustration. Their watercolor paintings of wounds, injuries and histological and pathologic views were far in advance of any done to that time. The chromolithographs reproducing them were printed by Julius Bien, the foremost American lithographer of the period.
The History also makes more extensive use of photogaph and photomechanical reproduction than any previous medical publication, with numerous lithographs from photographs by Bell, Ward and French, heliotypes (Osgood & Co.) and Woodburytypes (American Photo-Relief Printing Co.). Garrison-Morton 2171 & 5185; Rutkow, History of Surgery in the United States (1988) GS 568. (6)
6 volumes, 4
THE DEFINITIVE WORK ON MEDICINE PRACTICED DURING THE CIVIL WAR. Mixed issue: Surgical volume part 2 and Medical volume part 2 are first issue; Surgical volumes part 1 and 3 and Medical volume part 1 are second issue; Medical volume part 3 with no issue noted. This massive work has been called "the first comprehensive American medical book," of inestimable value for its great quantity of information and illustrations. The original illustrations, done by two immigrant German painters--Herman Faber and Edward Stauch--reproduced in chromolithography and engraving, are landmarks in American medical illustration. Their watercolor paintings of wounds, injuries and histological and pathologic views were far in advance of any done to that time. The chromolithographs reproducing them were printed by Julius Bien, the foremost American lithographer of the period.
The History also makes more extensive use of photogaph and photomechanical reproduction than any previous medical publication, with numerous lithographs from photographs by Bell, Ward and French, heliotypes (Osgood & Co.) and Woodburytypes (American Photo-Relief Printing Co.). Garrison-Morton 2171 & 5185; Rutkow, History of Surgery in the United States (1988) GS 568. (6)