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A Set of Anatomical Tables, with Explanations, and an Abridgement, of the Practice of Midwifery by Smellie, William

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Title: A Set of Anatomical Tables, with Explanations, and an Abridgement, of the Practice of Midwifery
Author: Smellie, William
Seller: Biblioctopus (United States)
Description: London: D. Wilson, 1754. First Edition. The finest, most accurate, and largest obstetrical atlas published up to that time. Large folio (21 1/2" X 14 9/16"), 22 leaves of text, unsigned and unpaginated, errata on recto of last leaf, 39 engraved plates, numbered I-XXXIX. 19th century half morocco with gilt leather label to front board, endpapers renewed, but this is a very good and superior copy with no repair, and no stains. Rare (Norman says, "presumably issued in only 100 copies"). The plates in this pioneering book give everywhere, and for the first time, a masterly representation, true to nature, of the relations of the parts of mother and child, and have contributed more to spreading correct ideas of labor than all the books that had previously been written on the subject. Of the 39 plates, 26 were based on drawings by the Dutch comparative anatomist Jan van Rymsdyck. 11 other plates were by one of Smellie's students from Holland, Dr. Pieter Camper, and Smellie himself is believed to have drawn the illustrations for the other 2 plates. All were beautifully engraved by Charles Grignon and they include the first illustration of a rachitic pelvis. Scarce these days. RBH records only 1 copy sold at auction in the last 15 years (2015). Refs: Grolier/Medicine 43B. Heirs of Hippocrates 826. Norman 1955. Garrison-Morton 6154.1. "The Sett of Anatomical Tables...published 2 years after the first volume of the Treatise...was intended to illustrate as accurately as possible the female pelvis and the fetus, but is regarded as "a complete work in itself." -Garrison-Morton "Smellie was born in Lanarkshire, Scotland. Following an apprenticeship with a local apothecary-physician, naval service, and general practice, he moved to London where he taught obstetrics in his own home. Smellie used mannequins fabricated from pelvic and fetal bones covered with leather to demonstrate obstetrics scientifically. He became a popular teacher, giving over 280 courses of midwifery to more than nine hundred pupils." (Grolier/Medicine). "Smellie, the foremost obstetrician of the eighteenth century, described more accurately than any previous writer the mechanical relation of the fetal head to the mother's pelvis during parturition. He introduced the English lock on the obstetrical forceps, and coincidentally with André Levret of Paris, added the pelvic curve. He was the first to rotate the fetal head with forceps and to use them on the aftercoming head of a breech delivery. Smellie was the first to lay down rules for the safe use of the forceps; these remain valid today. He also invented several important obstetric instruments..." (Grolier/Medicine).

The Natural History of Oxford-shire, Being an Essay toward the Natural History of England. By Robert Plot, LL.D. by NATURAL HISTORY. Plot, Robert (1640-1696)

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Title: The Natural History of Oxford-shire, Being an Essay toward the Natural History of England. By Robert Plot, LL.D.
Author: NATURAL HISTORY. Plot, Robert (1640-1696)
Seller: Liber Antiquus (United States)
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Description: Oxford: And are to be had there: And in London at Mr. S. Millers, at the Star near the West-end of St. Pauls Church-yard, 1677. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. An excellent, very tall copy on heavy paper. Bound in contemporary English paneled calf, (nicely rebacked and with repairs to the corners, some mild surface wear. The boards are framed by a double gilt rule, the central compartment with a roll-tooled border and ornate floral tools at the corners, gilt. The text is illustrated with a large folding map of Oxfordshire and sixteen full-paged engravings of fossils, minerals, plants, the fascinating Enston waterworks, and other marvels and curiosities, by Michael Burghers. Trivial blemishes as follows: Light finger-soiling to lower corner of t.p., light stain in the gutter of first two leaves, clear dampstain to outer margin of leaf B4, gathering H, and first plate; small burn hole in margin of leaf L1, U4 small paper flaw in blank margin. Note on imprimatur leaf "Large paper copy." "Of all of the British naturalists of the late seventeenth-century, few represent the omnivorous curiosity of the Baconian tradition and its passion for collecting specimens and observations for their own sake so well as Robert Plot... In 1674 he drew up an itinerary patterned on those of earlier English antiquaries; but whereas they had been concerned with books and buildings to the exclusion of natural history and technology, Plot intended to tour England and Wales in search of 'all curiosities both of art and nature such... as transcend the ordinary performances of the one and are out of the ordinary road of the other.' He began with the county in which he was then living, starting work on his 'Natural History of Oxfordshire' in June 1674; by November 1675 he had a fine collection of minerals to exhibit to the Royal Society, and the book appeared in 1677. On the strength of the 'Natural history', Plot was appointed fellow of the Royal Society in 1677. He was secretary in 1682-1684 and thus joint editor of the Philosophical Transactions, most of which were printed at Oxford during his term of office; he was elected secretary in 1692. His success as a collector of rarities must also have helped when, in March 1683, the University of Oxford appointed him first keeper of the newly acquired Ashmolean Museum. "Some seventy species of fossils are described. Here we have excellent descriptions and beautifully engraved drawings of these objects from the Jurassic and Cretaceous. Among them are many well-known forms.... He recognized the essential differences between those unrelated groups of bivalved shells, the brachiopods and the lamellibranchs". (Challinor p. 62). This work also contains the first depiction of a dinosaur fossil. The fossil femur, identified by Plot as belonging to an elephant (and later as the femur of a giant), is now believed to have belonged to a Megalosaurus. The illustration is bound before page 143. The fossil had been discovered in 1676 in the Taynton Limestone Formation of the Stonesfield quarry. In the 19th c., Richard Owen used the Megalosaurus, along with the Iguanodon and Hylaeosaurus to define the dinosauria. "Plot's stress on the unusual and the anomalous, and his expectation that more can be learned from exceptions than from the general rule, apparently stemmed from his interpretation of the Baconian inheritance; this approach gives his natural histories a rather bizarre and curious flavor- his zoology tends to be teratology. He started with the heavens -curious meteorological phenomena observed in the country- then its airs (acoustic researches into sites famous for their echoes), waters-especially mineral and medicinal-and earths. The phenomena of erosion, which he called 'deterration', are discussed. He had some notion of stratigraphy, observing that 'the Earth is here [Shotover Hill], as at most other places, I think I may say of a bulbous nature, several folds of diverse colour and consistencies still including one another.' "Plot also made an extensive study of 'formed stones' or fossils, without appreciating that they could be used to identify strata. The controversy on the origins of fossils was then at its height. Plot argued, from the differences between fossil shells and any known specimens of the living shellfish they were thought to represent, that fossil shells were crystallizations of mineral salts; their zoomorphic appearance was as coincidental as the regular shapes of stalactites or snowflakes. Large quadruped fossils he considered the remains of giants, except for one identified as that of an elephant through comparison with an Elephant skull in the Ashmolean museum. "One of [Plot's] main objectives was to describe local crafts and farming techniques, in the hope of diffusing successful practices or new inventions throughout the country. Thus technological information is scattered through both his works on natural history, providing useful evidence on contemporary agriculture, mines, and such industries as the Staffordshire potteries." (DSB).

The Dark Music, In Playboy, December 1956 by BEAUMONT, Charles

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Title: The Dark Music, In Playboy, December 1956
Author: BEAUMONT, Charles
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Description: 1956. BEAUMONT, Charles. "The Dark Music." In Playboy Magazine, December, 1956. Very Good. $75.00.

[Op. 155]. Haute volée-Polka für das Piano-Forte... 155tes Werk. [Piano score] by STRAUSS, Johann, Jr. 1825-1899

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Title: [Op. 155]. Haute volée-Polka für das Piano-Forte... 155tes Werk. [Piano score]
Author: STRAUSS, Johann, Jr. 1825-1899
Seller: J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
Description: Wien: Carl Haslinger quondam Tobias [PN C.H. 11695], 1855. Folio. Unbound as issued. [1] (title), 2-3 pp. Engraved. Somewhat worn, soiled, torn and creased; some tears to edges repaired; reinforced with tape at spine. First Edition. Weinmann p. 80. Schneider SEV p. 228.

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