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HUNTER (WILLIAM) Anatomia uteri humani gravidi tabulis illustrata. The Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus Exhibited in Figures, FIRST EDITION, Birmingham, John Baskerville, 1774 image 1
HUNTER (WILLIAM) Anatomia uteri humani gravidi tabulis illustrata. The Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus Exhibited in Figures, FIRST EDITION, Birmingham, John Baskerville, 1774 image 2
HUNTER (WILLIAM) Anatomia uteri humani gravidi tabulis illustrata. The Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus Exhibited in Figures, FIRST EDITION, Birmingham, John Baskerville, 1774 image 3
HUNTER (WILLIAM) Anatomia uteri humani gravidi tabulis illustrata. The Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus Exhibited in Figures, FIRST EDITION, Birmingham, John Baskerville, 1774 image 4
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HUNTER (WILLIAM)
Anatomia uteri humani gravidi tabulis illustrata, FIRST EDITION, Birmingham, John Baskerville, 1774

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HUNTER (WILLIAM)

Anatomia uteri humani gravidi tabulis illustrata. The Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus Exhibited in Figures, FIRST EDITION, 34 engraved plates, title laid down with repairs touching one letter, title and dedication soiled, spotting, marginal damp-staining throughout (just touching image on three plates), 8 additional engraved plates bound in, modern half calf gilt, rubbed, corners bumped [Choulant-Frank, pp.296-297; Garrison-Morton 6157; Gaskell 53; Heirs of Hippocrates 942; Norman 1125; Waller 5004], large folio (620 x 460mm.), Birmingham, John Baskerville, 1774

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FIRST EDITION OF "ONE OF THE FINEST ANATOMICAL ATLASES EVER TO BE PRODUCED" (Garrison-Morton), containing life-sized figures "which not only are anatomically accurate but are themselves works of art. Hunter spent more than twenty-five years preparing this atlas, employed artists to prepare the engravings at enormous expense to himself, and entrusted the printing of the work to John Baskerville, the greatest English printer of the 18th century. This monumental work is, indeed, one of the great publications of world medical literature as well as a classic of book production" (Heirs of Hippocrates). Several of the additional plates are taken from James Hogben's Anatomical tables illustrative of his Treatise on midwifery intituled Obstetric studies, 1811.

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