Estimate: | £150 - £250 |
Hammer price: | £120 |
NIGHTINGALE, Florence (1820-1910). Florence Nightingale to her Nurses. A Selection from Miss Nightingale's Addresses to Probationers and Nurses of the Nightingale School at St. Thomas's Hospital. London: Macmillan and Co., 1914. 8vo. Half title, half tone frontispiece portrait with the author's facsimile signature beneath, one-page letter in facsimile at the end followed by 4-pages of publisher's advertisements (marginal stain to p.31). Original tan buckram lettered and ruled in red (rebacked preserving original spine, light stain to lower covers, new endpapers, without a dust-jacket). Provenance: some passages highlighted in pencil; one section of text scored through with pencil. FIRST EDITION.