Florence Nightingale

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A first edition copy with a tipped-in letter signed by Florence Nightingale. The letter reads “Pray, at least believe that you find in these few homely remarks a proof of my warm interest in your arrangements and let me remain… Your most faithful servt. Florence Nightingale.”

This book is considered the cornerstone of modern nursing. Presentation copies or those with tipped-in signed notes are exceptionally rare and highly valued by medical historians and collectors.
Florence Nightingale’s sought after significant volume on nursing, giving a variety of hints and advice, written after her times in Crimea. This is an incredibly important work, the first of its kind ever written, and is modern in its practice, written both for study of professionals and for people who would be nursing at home. Nightingale used this work as a basis for the curriculum at the Nightingale School. ‘Notes on Nursing’ also sold very well to the general public. Chapters include ‘Ventilation and Warming’, ‘Health of Houses’, ‘Noise’, ‘Taking Food’, ‘Bed and Bedding’, ‘Light’, ‘Cleanliness of Rooms and Walls’, and more.