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[AMERICAN CIVIL WAR]. NIGHTINGALE, Florence (1820-1910). Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and What it Is Not. New York: D. Appleton, 1860.
8vo. Original brown pebbled cloth, boards double-ruled in blind, front board lettered in gilt, yellow coated endleaves (some light wear at extreme ends and corners). Provenance: A(?) White of Albany, New York (early penciled ownership signature on title-page).
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Nightingale was a nurse during the Crimean War, and improved nursing methods for patients and nurses alike including during the U.S. Civil War where she was frequently consulted about how to best manage field hospitals.