SMELLIE, William (1697-1763). A Sett of Anatomical Tables, with Explanations, and an Abridgement, of the Practice of Midwifery . London: D. Wilson, 1754.
SMELLIE, William (1697-1763). A Sett of Anatomical Tables, with Explanations, and an Abridgement, of the Practice of Midwifery . London: D. Wilson, 1754. Broadsheets (536 x 365 mm). 39 engraved plates by Grignion after Jan van Rymsdyk and Pieter Camper (some occasional pale spotting and light soiling). Contemporary calf (rebacked, some rubbing and light wear). Provenance : Thomas Howard (signature on front paste-down); Norman F. Haskell (bookplate; his sale part II, Christie's New York, 16 June 1998, lot 794); from the collection of Dean Edell. FIRST EDITION , rare, presumably issued in only 100 copies. "Smellie was the leading forceps practitioner in London, and several of the plates illustrate the use of this instrument in various presentations of the fetus. These engravings are the first accurate anatomical illustrations of the fetus in utero" (Norman). The life-size pastel drawings Rymsdyk made for Smellie were far superior in accuracy to any that had appeared previously. William Hunter bought them at the posthumous sale of Smellie's collection in 1770, and they are now part of the Hunterian Collection at the University of Glasgow. Garrison-Morton 6154.1; Grolier Medicine 43B; Heirs of Hippocrates 826; NLM/Blake, p.420; Norman 1955; Russell 753 (recording more than 14 editions); Waller 9012.
SMELLIE, William (1697-1763). A Sett of Anatomical Tables, with Explanations, and an Abridgement, of the Practice of Midwifery . London: D. Wilson, 1754.
SMELLIE, William (1697-1763). A Sett of Anatomical Tables, with Explanations, and an Abridgement, of the Practice of Midwifery . London: D. Wilson, 1754. Broadsheets (536 x 365 mm). 39 engraved plates by Grignion after Jan van Rymsdyk and Pieter Camper (some occasional pale spotting and light soiling). Contemporary calf (rebacked, some rubbing and light wear). Provenance : Thomas Howard (signature on front paste-down); Norman F. Haskell (bookplate; his sale part II, Christie's New York, 16 June 1998, lot 794); from the collection of Dean Edell. FIRST EDITION , rare, presumably issued in only 100 copies. "Smellie was the leading forceps practitioner in London, and several of the plates illustrate the use of this instrument in various presentations of the fetus. These engravings are the first accurate anatomical illustrations of the fetus in utero" (Norman). The life-size pastel drawings Rymsdyk made for Smellie were far superior in accuracy to any that had appeared previously. William Hunter bought them at the posthumous sale of Smellie's collection in 1770, and they are now part of the Hunterian Collection at the University of Glasgow. Garrison-Morton 6154.1; Grolier Medicine 43B; Heirs of Hippocrates 826; NLM/Blake, p.420; Norman 1955; Russell 753 (recording more than 14 editions); Waller 9012.
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