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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
[300/500]
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.
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TILLI, MICHELANGELO.
Catalogus plantarum horti Pisani.
50 engraved
botanical plates; 2 folding engraved plans;
LACKS THE PORTRAIT
. xii, [2], 187, [1] pages,
including half-title. Folio, 359x245 mm, contemporary boards, lacks backstrip, binding bro-
ken; intermittent dampstaining in upper and outer margins affecting some plates.
Florence: Tartini & Franchi, 1723
[800/1,200]
“The Botanical Garden at Pisa was founded around 1543 and was . . . one of the first such
gardens in Europe . . . the long alphabetical list of plants in this volume is one of the most
important for the early eighteenth century”—Hunt 457. Nissen BBI 1967.
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