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HUNTER, WILLIAM. Anatomia uteri humani gravidi tabulis illustrata . . . The Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus exhibited in Figures. Latin and English text. 34 engraved plates after Jan van Rymsdyk. [20] (of [21]) text leaves; lacks the dedication leaf. Broadsheet, 689x493 mm, modern 1/4 morocco, spine faded with stain at bottom; toning along edges through most of volume, varying foxing, heavily affecting plates 5, 16, 32, and 34, mostly marginal on the rest, vertical crease through plate 6, repaired clean tear in inner margin of plates 13 and 21. Birmingham: John Baskerville, 1774
first edition of the final production of the Baskerville press, one of the largest obstetrical atlases published until then, with life-size illustrations. "Not until Smellie (1754) and William Hunter (1774) published their monumental volumes do we actually find illustrations of the foetus in utero which were really observed and faultlessly reproduced from an anatomic point of view" (Choulant-Frank). Garrison-Morton 6157 ("Hunter's best work and one of the finest anatomical atlases ever produced"); Choulant-Frank, pages 75 and 296; Gaskell 56; Norman 1125.
