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Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, United States Army. 3 vols.

Publication Details

Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1873 CE.

The first formal published catalogue of the ancestor of the US National Library of Medicine, prepared under the supervision of John Shaw Billings. Vols. 1-2 represented an author catalogue A-Z. Vol. 3: Supplement: Anonymous, transactions, reports, periodicals.

In his preface Billings wrote that the library contained "about 25,000 volumes, and 15,000 single pamphlets, and the present catalogue gives about 50,000 titles exclusive of cross-references...." Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

Catalog MetadataReference Information
Entry Number#11212
Permanent Linkhttps://staging.historyofmedicine.com/entry/13409
Author Bio LinkWikipedia ↗
External URLcatalogue-of-the-library-of-the-surgeon-generals-office-united-states-army-3-vols

Geographic Context

Publication place: Washington, DC