Feb 19, 2004 - Sale 1997

Sale 1997 - Lot 339

Price Realized: $ 1,092
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
SMELLIE, WILLIAM. Anatomical Tables, with Explanations, and an Abridgment of the Practice of Midwifery . . . New Edition, carefully corrected and revised. 40 engraved plates (offsetting onto facing pages, some lightly foxed). Folio, 562x430 mm, contemporary 1/2 sheep, badly worn, lacks backstrip, covers detached; some foxing on text leaves, institutional stamps on title and verso of plates (and recto of numbers 30 and 31), 2 ink blots in blank area of plate 32; bookplate. Edinburgh: William Creech, 1787

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Atlas of life-sized plates issued to accompany Smellie's A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Midwifery. Garrison-Morton 6154.1 (1754 original edition); Russell (1963) 759 (this edition).