FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE, THE ERD CROSS, AND AMBULANCES
[MILITARY MEDICINE.]
Volume of nineteen items concerning the treatment and care of war wounded.
Amsterdam, Berlin, Brussels, Milan, Paris, 1855-1875.
19 items in 1 vol., 8vo, several with illustrations; very good copies in quarter dark brown morocco over marbled boards, gilt lettering to spine ‘Mélanges chirurgie 12 Société de chirurgie’, marbled endpapers.
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Volume of nineteen items concerning the treatment and care of war wounded.
A remarkable sammelband of scarce works on military medicine in French, Italian, Dutch and German, including an item on Florence Nightingale and treatises on gunshot wounds, the Red Cross, field hospitals, battlefield first aid, and ambulances. Several items bear inscriptions by Félix Hippolyte Larrey (1808–1895), personal physician to Napoleon III.
Contents:
1. SHRIMPTON, Charles. La guerre d’orient. L’armée anglaise et Miss Nightingale. Paris, Germer-Baillière, 1864.
Pp. [4], iv, 68. Inscription of the baron Larrey at foot of title page: ‘Présenté de la part de l’auteur à la Société de chirurgie le 11 9bre 1863’. First French edition. Only the British Library and New York Academy of Medicine copies in the UK and US on OCLC.
2. MELCHIORJ, Giovanni. Ferita da arma da fuoco alla regione deltoidea del braccio con frattura dell’omero. Disarticolazione scapula-omerale. Milan, 1867.
Pp. 6, [2]. Light damp stain to lower margin. Not on OCLC.
3. VAN HOLSBEEK, Henry. Souvenir de la guerre franco-allemande. Considérations au point de vue hospitalier et chirurgical ... Deuxième édition. Brussels, C. Muqardt, Henry Merzbach, 1872.
Pp. 71, [1], large folding plate of Hôpital-baraque de 28 lits, red cross to title, inscription from author and stamp to half-title. Loss to upper corner of half-title. Only the British Library copy on Library Hub; only the NLM copy in the US on OCLC.
4. UYTTERHOEVEN, André. Institution en Belgique d’une Société internationale et permanente pour concourir, en temps de guerre, au service de santé des armées. Brussels, 1864.
Pp. 26. Red cross stamp to title. Not on OCLC.
5. Bulletin d’adhésion à l’institution d’un comité de secours aux blessés, en Belgique. [Brussels, 1864.]
1 f., printed on recto only. Printed form. Not on OCLC.
6. LECOMTE, Onésime. De l’exploration des balles dans les plaies par armes à feu des os et des articulations. Paris, Victor Rozier, 1863.
Pp. 58 pages, one plate. Light damp stain in lower margin. British Library only on COPAC; no copies in the US on OCLC.
7. GORI, Marinus Willem Clemente. De militaire chirurgie en de geneeskundige dienst te velde ... Amsterdam, C.G. van der Post, 1875.
Pp. viii, 63. Inscription of the baron Larrey at foot of title page: ‘Présenté de la part de l’auteur à la Société de chirurgie de Paris le 8 7bre 1875’. No copies in the UK or US on OCLC.
8. TOURRAINE, Alfred-Auguste. Note sur quelques moyens de déligation chirurgicale très-utiles en campagne et quand on est privé des ressources des hôpitaux, soit civils, soit militaires. Paris, Victor Rozier, 1875.
Pp. 28 and 7 plates. Not on COPAC; one copy only in the US on OCLC.
9. FUMAGALLI, Cesare. Aforismi di chirurgia militaire. Milan, 1866.
Pp. 15, [1]. Inscribed by author at head of p. 1. Not on OCLC.
10. TARDIEU, Amédée. 8me ambulance de campagne de la Société de secours aux blessés (campagne de Sedan et de Paris). Août 1870-Février 1871. Rapport historique, médical et administratif. Paris, Adrien Delahaye, 1872.
Pp. 105, [3]. Closed tear to pp. 95-6. Inscription from the author to professor Labbé to half-title, ink stamps to half-title and title. Only the British Library and NLM copies in the UK and US on OCLC.
11. BRIAU, René. Du service de santé militaire chez les Romains. Paris, Victor Masson et Fils, 1866.
Pp. 96, [2]. Inscription of the baron Hippolyte Larrey at foot of title page: ‘Présenté de la part de l’auteur à la Société de chirurgie 7bre 1866’. British Library and Oxford only on Library Hub.
12. UYTTERHOEVEN, André. Encore un mot sur les moyens de porter immédiatement secours aux blessés sur les champs de bataille. Brussels, J. B. Tircher, 1855.
Pp. 24. No copies in the UK or US on OCLC.
13. MERCHIE, Z. Des secours à porter aux blessés sur les champs de bataille. Réponse à M. le docteur André Uytterhoeven. Brussels, Charles Lelong, 1855.
Pp. 42. No copies in the UK or US on OCLC.
14. ROTH, Wilhelm. Militairärztliche Studien. Drei aufsätze ... Berlin, Vossische Buchhandlung, 1864.
Pp. 124, [2] with 7 plates. Small stain to 2 plates. Inscription on title by baron Larrey ‘à la Société de chirurgie de Paris de la part de l’auteur présenté en Juin 1864’. British Library and Royal College of Surgeons only on Library Hub.
15. GAETANO, Arena. Descrizione d’una vettura di ambulanza. Torino, G. Cassone, 1867.
Pp. 11, [1]. Inscription at foot of title. No copies in the UK or US on OCLC.
16. Le présent et l’avenir du corps de santé des armées de terre. Paris, F. Bracke, 1860. pp. 56. Small light damp stain at lower corner. British Library only on Library Hub; no US copies on OCLC.
17. ROCHARD, Félix. Projet de création d’une ambulance sur la Seine. [S.l., s.n.,] 1871.
Pp. [2], 28. Not on OCLC.
18. ROCHARD, Félix. Projet de création d’un hôpital sur l’eau. Paris, Renou et Maulde, 1872.
Pp. 23, [1] with two large folding plates (bound after the following item) showing Projet d’hopital sur la Marne and Projet de baraque hospitalière. Wellcome, Chicago, NLM and Yale on OCLC.
19. MILLIOT, Benjamin. Du diagnostic et de l’extraction des projectiles et particulièrement des projectiles en fonte de fer. Paris, P. Asselin, 1872.
Pp. 20. No UK or US copies on OCLC.
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