, Te Amsterdam, By Jan Morterre, 1765 + 1766, Gebonden, volleder, goudopdruk op front, 5 nerven en titelvignet op rug, originele titelpagina's, 210 x 280mm., 266 + 262 + 304 + 78pp + 41 gegraveerde platen met hun verklaring.
Verhandeling over het bespiegelend en bewerkend deel der Vroedkunde / In 't Engels geschreven door William Smellie; na de derde druk in 't Hollandsch gebragt, en met eenige weinige aanmerkingen en zaaken vermeerderd door Matthys van der Haage. Het geheel is in perfecte staat!
Très rare ouvrage d'une importance considérable pour l'art des accouchements. Il s'agit de la première traduction en français. Notre exemplaire est composite comme très souvent. Il est bien complet de 4 tomes en 3 volume in-8° Plein veau raciné, dos à nerfs à caissons dorés, pièces de titre et de tomaison rouges, tranches rouges. Reliure de l'époque en parfait état. Plein veau raciné, dos à nerfs à caissons dorés, pièces de titre et de tomaison rouges, tranches rouges. Reliure de l'époque en parfait état. Très bon Paris Didot, 1771 (tome I), Delaguette, 1756 (tome II), Didot, 1765 (tome III et IV). 4 tomes en 3 volume in-8°
SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF SCOTLAND ( publisher and editor ) - William Smellie - James Foulis - Earl of Buchan - John Geddes - John Dillon - [...] ( some early contributors )
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" Edinburgh, Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1792 - 1890, bound in 5 large in-4° volumes, 26,8 x 21,2 cm, [Vol.I] (12)nn pp + (III- XXXIV) pp + 570 pp + 7 plates (one folding) . [Vol. II] XVIII pp + 512 pp + 32 pp (appendix) + 19 plates or tables (2 folding). [Vol. III] VII pp + 337 pp ; (9)nn pp + (VI-XXXI) pp + 212 pp + ()(errata) ( appendix) + 11 plates. [Vol. IV] VII pp + (1)(list) + 453 pp + 59 pp (appendix) + (1)(errata) + XXXI plates . [Vol. V] XI pp + 457 pp + 79 pp (list of donations) + 70 plates. (complete set with all ills.). The title pages for vols. I , II , III were published in 1890 ( with the last vol.) and are bound in at the correct places. Set uniformly bound in quarter vellum, with marbled boards and end papers, edges painted red. Spines decorated with gilt and with two labels. From the library of Greenshields-Leadbetter of Stobieside . His ex-libris tipped on to the first fly leaf in every volume. Also a later ex-libris of Mr. Blackwood Greenshields ( on the first paste down). Very fine copy in very handsome bindings. For the sake of completeness we mention as only defect the browning and staining a few plates in vols. 3 & 4. Complete set of the most important archaeological and historical periodical published in Scotland in the 19th c.. It started in the 18th century (1792 !) and ran until 1890. In this year it merged with the Society's Proceedings."