WHYTE'S THE ECLECTIC COLLECTOR 5 MAY 2018

History THE ECLECTIC COLLECTOR · 5 MAY 2018 AT 11AM 84 Mac Cormac, William. Notes and Recollections of an Ambulance Surgeon. Being an Account of Work done under the Red Cross during the Campaign of 1870. J.& A. Churchill. London. 1871, 8vo, x,155, with 7 Plates. A rare book by an eminent Irish Surgeon. Born in Belfast, the son of a notable physician, William MacCormac studied medicine and surgery at Belfast, Dublin and Paris, and graduated in arts, medicine and surgery at the Queen’s University, Belfast, in which he afterwards became an examiner in surgery. MacCormac was a strong advocate of the antiseptic surgical methods proposed by Joseph Lister and he served in conflicts such as the Franco- Prussian and Boer Wars. An advocate and pioneer of the Royal Army Medical Corps, MacCormac was perhaps the most decorated surgeon in Britain and he served as Serjeant Surgeon to Edward VII. Estimate €200-€300 approx (£170-£260 approx.) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid 84 84A Album of Dublin cartes de visites and postcards and a folder of Dublin prints and ephemera. 31 cartes de visites and 9 postcards, including three late 1920s postcards of women dressed in men’s clothes; together with a folder of 19th and early 20th century prints, photographs and ephemera relating to Dublin. Estimate €120-€180 approx (£100-£160 approx.) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid 84A 85 1914-1918 Medal pair to Royal Dublin Fusilier and two others. 1914-15 Star and Victory Medal to 32279 Pte. P. Kearns. R. D. Fus.; together witrh a 1914-1918 Great War Medal to 30313 Gnr. H. Seadon. R.A. and an unnamed 1914 Star; also A Royal Dublin Fusiliers cap badge and collar badge. (6) Estimate €120-€180 approx (£100-£160 approx.) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid 85