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Thomas Dobson, 1797-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. . Third Ameircan edition. Full leather cover with heavy erosion, top board detached. Pages are tanned and foxed.

London: T Kay. G: in good condition. Modern rebind with new eps. The first 20 pages have the margin clipped, not impinging. Some foxing and marks within. 1796. 4th Edition. Black hardback cloth cover. 230mm x 160mm (9" x 6"). 405pp. .

Edinburgh: Charles Elliot. Worn condition. Cover heavily rubbed and scuffed with boards held only by strings. Slight foxing, but content in overall good condition. 1787. New edition. Brown hardback leather cover. 210mm x 130mm (8" x 5"). 424pp. By Alexander Hamilton MD FRS Edin, Professor of Midwifery in the University and member of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh. Dedicated to William Cullen, MD First Physician to the King in Scotland and Professor of the Physic in the University of Edinburgh; a gentleman not more conspicuous for extensive knowledge in every department of science than for the many great and useful improvements he has introduced into the theory and practice of Medicine. The following outlines are respectfully inscribed by his much obliged and most respected servant, the Author. .

Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson, 1797. New Edition. Hardcover. Good -. New Edition, 1797. Full tree calf leather, original red leather label, exterior hinges split 50 and 60 percent, the spine is also split from the head to the tail (at page 120), but is holding strong by all ties, head and tail of spine chipped with one-half inch loss. Free front end paper detached. Original price written in ink on free end paper. xv, 288; 98pp., with a Publisher's Catalog. Full refund if not satisfied.

Edinburgh: Printed for C. Elliott, Edinburgh; and G. Robinson, London, 1784. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Edinburgh 1784, First Edition. Size octavo, 426 pages, plus 6 page, separately paginated publisher's medical catalogue at the rear. Hard cover with black cloth spine section and gilt titles to the spine. Condition very good, the binding is in very good condition but is a modern rebind with new end-papers, title is a little dust marked, edges a little frayed and with a small piece missing from the upper outer corner, date has been hand written below the Roman numerals. Attractive copperplate hand Previous owner's name to the upper margin of dedication page "R. Jones. Surgeon" first and last few pages a little toned and dusted, a little toning and a few light handling marks to a few pages in the margins else the pages are clean throughout. Previous owner's name to the upper margin of dedication page "R. Jones.… Read More

Printed by A. Bartram, 1806. Hardcover. Good. From the library of ABAA bookseller, Tom Nicely. Full leather, worn and scuffed; small area on bottom front edge that looks like book worm damage; rear external hinge cracked, 8vo, 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; mylar jacket; Bookplate on free front endpaper; previous owner's name on front pastedown and top of title page; stamped on title page and last page; no internal markings; 40 plates; 400 pages.

Edinburgh: C Elliot. Near Fine. 1784. First Edition. Hardback. xvi, 426, 6 pp pub cat; Smellie 71 pp with 40 plates;; Full modern calf; endpaper restoration, but very little wear or foxing, plates in very nice condition. .

Worcester, MA: Isaiah Thomas, 1794. First Isaiah Thomas Edition. Hardcover. Occasional foxing or staining, but generally clean in a Fine, handsome binding. Octavo (5" x 8-1/8") bound in recent full calf leather with gilt decoration to the boards and spine, raised bands, marbled endpapers; 302 pages. Complete with the original endpapers. First published in Edinburgh in 1784 and in America in Philadelphia in 1790, the Isaiah Thomas edition is fairly scarce. Austin 862; Evans 27084; Heirs of Hippocrates 652: "Hamilton was the first to distinguish and describe uterine and vaginal discharge and he promoted the concept of the perineum as supporting the pelvic structure.... The American edition of his later publication, TREATISE ON THE MANAGEMENT OF FEMALE COMPLAINTS (1793), is the first American publication devoted to the subject of gynecology."