Treatise on the Improvement of Midwifery
by Chapman Edmund
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About This Item
London for L. Davis and C. Reymers, against Gray's-Inn, Holborn, Royal Society, 1759. later edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. Third Edition 1759. A Treatise on the Improvement of Midwifery, third edition, half-title, 2 engraved plates, occasional marginal ink markings, small marginal worm hole to last 2 leaves, previous owner's ink inscriptions, front free endpaper becoming loose, contemporary full calf, rubbed and worn, 8vo, 1759. Collates complete and with the half title and original blanks front and rear: lxiv ; [65]-264ppProvenance - Contemporary and later ink inscriptions record the book being passed down the female line of the same family, with three generations present.
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- Title
- Treatise on the Improvement of Midwifery
- Author
- Chapman Edmund
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- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- later edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London for L. Davis and C. Reymers, against Gray's-Inn, Holborn, Royal Society, 1759
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