Sale 2474 - The Knowing Eye: Photographs & Photobooks, Apri 19, 2018

228 c   (MEDICAL RESEARCH) Frederick Gutekunst (1831-1917) A Report on the Origin and Therapeutic Properties of Cundurango. A fascinating volume with 22 photographs depicting the plant, and a report describing the U.S. Navy’s investigation of its properties as well as cancer cases it was observed to remedy. By W.S.W. Ruschenberger, Medical Director U. S. Navy, President of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Photographs by Frederick Gutekunst. With 22 albumen photographs, the images measuring 9 1 / 4 x6 1 / 2 inches (23.5x16.5 cm.), each with the letterpress photographer’s credit, a caption, and plate number, on mount recto. Folio, red gilt-pictorial leather, rubbed and worn at edges; gold linen endpages; all edges gilt. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1873 [1,200/1,800]