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Smellie (William) A sett of anatomical tables...midwifery, first edition, 39 engraved plates, 1754.

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Smellie (William) A sett of anatomical tables...midwifery, first edition, 39 engraved plates, 1754.

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Smellie (William) A sett of anatomical tables, with explanations, and an abridgment of the practice of midwifery, first edition, 39 engraved plates by Grignion after Jan van Rymsdyk, Pieter Camper and the author, each plate with accompanying leaf of text, a little browned, some spotting and light offsetting, endpapers brittle and frayed, contemporary ink inscriptions to front pastedown, also bookplates of doctors Henry Marshall and Chas.S.Fisher Jr., old boards rebacked and recornered in calf, red morocco label, gilt spine, [Norman 1955; Wellcome V, 127], folio, 1754.

⁂ Possibly one of only 100 copies printed. "Smellie was the leading forceps practitioner in London, and several of the plates illustrate the use of this instrument in various presentations of the foetus. These engravings are the first accurate anatomical illustrations of the foetus in utero." (Norman).

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Smellie (William) A sett of anatomical tables...midwifery, first edition, 39 engraved plates, 1754.

Name: Smellie (William) A sett of anatomical tables...midwifery, first edition, 39 engraved plates, 1754.
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