According to cuttings pasted into inside of front cover, Dr. Samuel J. Radcliffe was a Surgeon and Brevet Lieutenant Colonel of the United States Medical Staff, and retired from the army to establish a medical practice in Baltimore. He was given an honorary A.M. degree by Georgetown College in 1866, and was later that year appointed examining surgeon by the Pension Bureau.

Extremely scarce, with only sixteen identified institutional holdings.

Octavo, [2], 7-200 pages. In Good condition. Bound in full contemporary brown embossed cloth with gilt titling. Boards show fading to covers, and small cracks and chipping to spine edges and corners. Text block has slight age-toning to pages interiorly. Ink ownership inscription appears on front free end paper: "S. J. Radcliffe Surgeon [illeg] Lt. Col & Med'c Dir'r 23d A.C. July 15 1865". Ex-library copy with usual markings, including a bookplate to front pastedown, institutional stamps to several pages, and call number written in pencil. MF Consignment.