?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
SPRATT, GEORGE. Obstetric Tables. 19 lithographed plates, including 14 hand-colored with lift-up flaps. 2 volumes. 4to, original cloth, minor spotting on covers, spines slightly faded, with some cracks and chips; occasional light toning of text leaves, plates generally clean. London, 1838
Third edition of a work originally published in 1833 and reprinted several times in England and 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.
