A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Midwifery by Smellie, William - 1990

New York: Krieger, 1974. Hardcover. Very Good. Very good faux brown leather hardcover (no dust jacket) with gilt letter and borders shows some spot staining at page egdes, light spine lean and some other mild wear. 454 pages + with ribbon marker. Solid copy of this facsimile reprinting of the classic 1752 work on midwifery.

U. S. A.: Classics of Medicine Library. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1990. Special Edition. Hardcover. Clean hardback tightly bound in brown leather with gilt titles and blindstamped decoration, 5 raised bands, gilded page edges, ribbon bookmark, bookplate of Prof A. Whitley Branwood on front endpaper otherwise no inscriptions. lxxii + 382 +10 pages, marbled endpapers. Copy no. 254 .

Birmingham, Alabama: The Classics of Medicine Library, 1990. 1st Facsimile Special Edition. Full-Leather. As New/No D/J as issued. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Type: Book Facsimile of the riginal 1752 first edition - 454 pp. + 9 pp. adverts. at rear, chesnut brown leather bdg. with 22-karat gilt-stamped boards with gilt-stamped titling on spine, 4 raised bands on spine, aeg, marbled end papers, cream silk ribbon bookmark. MINT condition.Photo scan available upon request. Books sold to the USA are shipped USPS out of Champlain NY.

New York,, 1990. First Edition Thus. Hardback.. Fine.. 8vo. pp 454, [8]. Original publisher's brown leather with decorative gilt at front and gilt lettering at spine.

Gryphon Editions Ltd.. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 1990. Numbered Edition. Full Leather. This is copy #2765; Very slightest of edgewear; comes with a bookplate w/copy # and previous owner's name laid in (not attached) and "Notes From the Editors" booklet; brown cowhide leather w/gilt page ends, silk ribbon bookmark; 454 pages .

Scolar Press, 1974. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. facsimile copy of the 1752 first edition. bound in leather or leatherette with gold gilt.the boards are a touch shelf rubbed. the book has a previous owner's neat (tiny) stamp mark. the binding is excellent. a very attractive copy.. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Birmingham: The Classics of Medicine Library, 1990. 1st ed. thus. As New. octavo. full leather lxxii + 454pp., Loosely inserted 19pp explanatory booklet. Beautifully bound in full tooled leather, with marbled end papers & all edges gilt

Birmingham, Alabama; The Classics of Medicine Library / Gryphon Editions; 1990.. Special Limited Facsimile Edition; Cr. 8vo; pp. [vi], [xiv], 454, (9), (1); marbled endpapers, bound in full brown leather, raised bands, title lettered in gilt on spine, gilt stamped decoration to spine and boards, all edges gilt, original silk page marker, fine copy. Together with the publishers 20 page booklet titled "notes From The Editor". The printing was prepared from the first edition of 1752.

Birmingham AL, Gryphon, Classics of Medicine Library, 1990. (Facsimile reprint London 1752) 454 p., full gold stamped leather, all edges gilded.

Printed for D. Wilson, at Plato's Head, near Round-Court, in the Strand. London. 1752. First edition. 8vo.. pp. (ii), xiv, lxxii, (73)-454, (ix) Advertisement [for the Sett of Anatomical Tables], (i) blank. Modern [though not new] quarter calf and marbled boards, occasional marginal mark either old and faded, small splash, or a grease spot, despite which a good copy. *GARRISON-MORTON #6154; RCOG pre-1851 imprints, p. 74; Grolier, Medicine 43a. Norman 1954. Heirs of Hippocrates 825. Spencer, History of British Midwifery, pp. 43-60. Cutter & Viets, Short History of Midwifery, pp. 26-28. Thoms, Classical Contributions to Obstetrics and Gynecology, pp. 123-25. Hagelin, Byrth of Mankynde, pp. 118-19. WALTER RADCLIFFE Milestones in Midwifery, p.35 et seq. – 'William Smellie (1697-1763) [was] a genius who was to become one of the greatest obstetricians of all time, and the finest teacher in his profession.'