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Estimate$600 – $900
Washington, (D.C.): Government Printing Office, 1871. First edition. 4to. 296 pp. Signed by United States Union Army General Philip Sheridan on title-page ("P.H. Sheridan/Lt. General"). Illustrated with four lithographic plates and numerous in-text illustrations. Three-quarter brown morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, stamped in blind and in gilt; matching marbled edges and endpapers; by Brian Frost & Company, Bath, England; scattered minor foxing in gutter. Sabin 69757; not in Nevins
A scarce volume, issued by the Surgeon General's Office, covering various surgical and medical innovations in the United States Army in the years immediately following the Civil War, and signed by celebrated Union General, Philip Sheridan.
From the library of bibliographer, bookseller, and arms collector, Raymond L.J. Riling (1896-1974), and with his illustrated book-plate on front paste-down.
![[Americana] [Sheridan, Philip Henry] (Otis, George A.) Circular No. 3. War Department. Surgeon General's Office, Washington, August 17, 1871. A Report of Surgical Cases Treated in the Army of the United States from 1865 to 1871](https://assets.basta.app/accounts/4832eb18-f9a7-4c12-8295-871abe232696/images/cdf34a7b-e898-4358-934f-5aa2a0ee68e4?format=auto&width=1080&quality=75)
![[Americana] [Sheridan, Philip Henry] (Otis, George A.) Circular No. 3. War Department. Surgeon General's Office, Washington, August 17, 1871. A Report of Surgical Cases Treated in the Army of the United States from 1865 to 1871](https://assets.basta.app/accounts/4832eb18-f9a7-4c12-8295-871abe232696/images/47768cbe-25fc-40f2-b74f-535dff073ffb?format=auto&width=1080&quality=75)