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SPRATT, GEORGE. Obstetric Tables. 21 lithographed plates, including 15 hand-colored with lift-up flaps. 4to, 277x217 mm, contemporary speckled sheep blocked in blind, joints and cover edges rubbed; scattered foxing on text leaves and some plates, clean tear across text leaf facing plate X. Philadelphia: James A. Bill, 1850
first american edition of a work originally published in 1833 in London and reprinted several times in England and in the United States. Lift-up flaps had been used in medical illustration since the 16th-century for the depiction of anatomical subjects; Spratt innovatively employed them to show successive stages in different types of delivery. Cutter & Viets, pages 232-33; Heirs of Hippocrates 1398.5.
