George Miller Sternberg: A Biography [Inscribed and Signed]

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  • Chicago: American Medical Association, 1920
By Martha L. Sternberg
Chicago: American Medical Association, 1920. Very Good+. Chicago: American Medical Association, 1920. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's navy blue ribbed cloth, gilt-lettered spine, top edge gilt; ix,[1],331pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece, eight leaves of plates. Light wear to extremities, corners gently tapped, very brief white splatter to upper cover and spine, else a Very Good to Near Fine copy. Inscribed and signed on front free endpaper: "To Miss M[?] Richards, from her friend Martha L. Sternberg. Washington DC / April 29th / 1921."

Biography of the George Miller Sternberg (1838-1915), 18th U.S. Army Surgeon General and author of the first American work on bacteriology, his "Manual of Bacteriology," in 1892.

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