Memoirs of Military Surgery, and Campaigns of the French Armies

by Dominique Jean Larrey

translated from the French by Richard Wilmott Hall M.D. 

First American edition, two volumes.  Baltimore:  Joseph Cushing, 1814 

Hardback is overall in VERY GOOD condition.

• Navy buckram covers are nicely halfbound in light calf, with raised spine bands, navy labels and gilt titles.  
• Boards show some signs of sunning at head and foot edges, edgewear.  Corners are bumped.  See photos.
• Spines have gilt text on navy labels which are bright, with sunned and bumped ends.  See photos.  
• Bindings are firm. 
• Marble paper end papers/ pastedowns show little sign of age or wear  Front pastedown Volume 1 is loose.  See photos.   
• Interiors are age-toned, with foxing throughout, some marginal staining, lower page corners turned back at front feps.  See photos. 
• Notes in pencil at rear feps, both volumes.  Some adhesion of feps at back of Volume 2.  See photos.  
• PS2023.0705

434 + 415 pages. 5 1/8 x 8 5/8 inches

First American edition in English of these two volumes of medical memoirs by the French surgeon and military doctor Baron Dominique Jean Larrey (1766-1842).  An important innovator in battlefield medicine and triage, Larrey is often considered the first modern military surgeon.  He traveled widely as the chief surgeon of Napoleon's army, and he wrote about the conditions particular to each region where he found himself. 

These volumes cover campaigns in the Rhine, Corsica, Catalonia, Egypt, Syria; Boulogne, Ulm, and Auterlitz in Saxony; Prussia, Poland, Spain, and Austria.  

The translator, Richard Wilmott Hall M.D., was Professor of Midwifery and of the Diseases of Women and Children in the University of Maryland.

First American Edition, from the Second French Edition.  With notes by the translator.  

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