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FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE AND THE CRIMEA

Books from the Library of Hugh Small, author of Florence Nightingale: Avenging Angel, to whom we are grateful for information and quotes used in the text.
Lot 29

[NIGHTINGALE (FLORENCE)]
A collection of reports and other works on the Crimea, the Army and Sanitation etc., by McNeill, Tulloch, Longmore, Farr and others (c.33)

4 December 2019, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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[NIGHTINGALE (FLORENCE)]

A collection of reports and other works on the Crimea, the Army and Sanitation, comprising: Report of the Commission of Enquiry into the Supplies of the British Army in the Crimea, 2 vol. including Appendix, ('the "McNeill & Tulloch" report, which Nightingale after the war set out to vindicate, only to find through statistical analysis that it was mistaken in its analysis of the cause of death in her hospitals'), Harrison, 1855--Report of the Board of General Officers... into... the Reports of Sir John M'Neill and Colonel Tulloch, 2 vol. including Index, ('also known as the "Chelsea Report" which whitewashed the officers accused by McNeill and Tulloch'), Index disbound, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1856--First [-Fifth] Report of the Select Committee on the Army before Sebastopol, 6 vol. including Index, ('also known as the Roebuck Report or the Sebastopol Report, notable for its failure to condemn sanitation at Scutari despite widespread criticism including from Prime Minister Palmerston'), First and Fifth Reports disbound and thinner, 1855, folio--DELAFIELD (RICHARD) Report on the Art of War in Europe in 1854, 1855, and 1856, additional hand-coloured lithographed pictorial title, 81 maps and plates (many folding, some lithographed), a few tears, occasional spotting, publisher's cloth, backstrip detached, 4to, Washington, 1860; and a quantity of others, by McNeill, Tulloch, Longmore and others (c.33)

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A collection of official reports, pamphlets and other works relating to the Army in the Crimea, hospitals and sanitation. For a full list, please see Condition Report.

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