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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 44 pages. Andrew Dakers "An Epic of the Barren Lands" / Sybil Thorndike "After Ten years" / Hugo Eckener "Zeppelin" / Somerset de Chair "Red Bread" / Malcolm Elwin "Robert Walpole" / Thomas Moult "I Came Here to Work!" / Sidney Dark "Friends & Adventures"/ Max Murray "I went to Russia" / E M Delafield "A Letter to the Publisher" / Alec Brown "Moscow Has a Plan" / Major Phelps Hodge "Long Way to London" / David Garnett "A note on 'Charlotte's row'" / W Walmesley White "Migratory Birds" - there are also photographs of; francis Stuart, Edward Garnett, H E Bates. (U.P.).…

Seltene handkolorierte Lithographie von 1852. Blatt-Maße: ca. 54,5 x 68 cm. -- leicht gebräunt am unteren Außenrand, sonst gut erhalten. || Rare original hand colored lithograph from 1852. -- slightly browned on the lower outer margin, otherwise in very good condition. // Wir, das Antiquariat Steffen Völkel, kaufen und verkaufen alte Bücher, Handschriften, Zeichnungen, Autographen, Grafiken und Fotografien. Wir sind stets am Ankauf von kompletten Bibliotheken, Sammlungen und Nachlässen interessiert. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 50.…

Condition: Good. Stipple engraving. 27.5 x 19.5 cm. (sheet). Good. Foxing in the image. Tear at lower left sheet edge.

Lithograph. In fair condition with the exception of being trimmed. Missing publication details. Foxing in the margins. Mounted onto contemporary backing sheet. Crease in upper right margin. Image size: 11 5/8 x 9 3/4 inches. A wonderful lithograph of the famous American doctor William Dewees, who changed the history of obstetrics. A name destined to become famous in American medicine was Dr. William Potts Dewees. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1789 and began to practice medicine at Abington. A yellow fever outbreak in Philadelphia brought Dewees back to the city where he continued to practive after the crisis had passed. He devoted himself especially to obstetrics, which was at that time a new branch of professional medicine in the United States. Dewees became one of the great midwives of his day and among the first to contend with the professional prejudice against physicians' delivering babies. Through perseverance and dedication, Dewees helped make obstetrics a respected branch of medicine and secured a place for the discipline in the college curriculum. This striking print by the accomplished lithographer M. E. D. Brown is after a portrait by the Philadelphian artist John Neagle. Neagle earned a reputation as an artist of skill and beauty and soon became one of the most famous portrait painters in Philadelphia. His commanding portrait of Dewees is considered one of his best paintings for the forceful way it illustrates the character and determination of its subject.…