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First edition of the great illustrated classic of obstetrics. The life-size drawings are far superior to any previously published work. They depict the anatomy of the genitalia, the pregnant uterus, the fetus during labor, twins, abnormal presentations, labor complications, and obstetric instruments invented by Smellie. “Not until Smellie (1754) and William Hunter (1774) published their monumental volumes do we actually find illustrations of the foetus in utero which were really observed and faultlessly reproduced from an anatomic point of view" (Choulant-Frank, pp. 75, 284). Garrison-Morton 6154.1; Norman 1955.