[VIRGINIANA] SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS IN OLD VIRGINIA: WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR AND SOME HISTORY OF THE PEOPLE AMONGST WHOM HIS LOT WAS CAST, -THEIR CHARACTER, THEIR CONDITION, AND THEIR CONDUCT BEFORE THE WAR, DURING THE WAR AND AFTER THE WAR

New York: Neale Publishing, 1904. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Octavo; in the publisher’s blue cloth binding; xvi, (17) 18-360 pages; a bit of edgewear to the boards; some scattered foxing throughout; a previous owner’s book plate on the front end paper~~A presentable First Edition of Dr. Claiborne’s memoir which is “among the best, if not at the very top of the Virginia books published by Neale which are not exclusively military” [Krick, 30-31]. ~~Dr. Claiborne was a surgeon in the 12th Virginia Infantry in the war, the book has excellent material on field medical services, supply shortages and Confederate surgical efforts [ibid]. (Krick, 30-31). Very Good binding.