SPRATT, GEORGE. 1784-1840.


Obstetric Tables: Comprising Graphic Illustrations, with Descriptions and Practical Remarks; Exhibiting on Dissected Plates Many Important Subjects in Midwifery. Philadelphia: James A. Bill, [1850]. 4to (280 x 219 mm). 20 colored lithographic plates, most with moveable flaps. Publisher's full sheep. Minor wear to sheep, dampstaining to margins of some leaves, affecting the edges of a few illustrations, scattered foxing and soiling.FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. MEDICAL ILLUSTRATIONS WITH MOVEABLE FLAPS. First American edition, second printing, with lithographs by Philadelphia printers Wagner & M'Guigan after drawings by Spratt. "Spratt was a member of the Royal College of Surgeons, a fellow of the Linnaean Society, a male midwife, and an active printmaker" (Heirs of Hippocrates 1398.5). He writes in the preface, "No single pictures could ever convey the same ideas, and enable the student to understand the descriptions; but these dissected plates are almost equal to the Mannikan itself." Many of the plates have several consecutive tipped-on flaps, some with as many as four or five flaps on a single illustration. Includes advertising leaf for Wagner & M'Guigan. Waller 9135.