Dewees Wm P (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Maroon leather w/gilt lettering and design.

hardcover. Condition: Good. bound in full leather which has moderate to heavy wear, tear, rubbing, and loss. gift inscription and label in the prelims. pages tanned and foxed.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good For Age. No Jacket. Third Edition. Good condition for it's advanced age. Spotting and dampstaing on the pages, edge wear, corner wear down to the boards. Handle with care. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Condition: GOOD. First edition. A collection of essays by this noted Philadelphia physician, who is considered as changing the history of obstetrics in the US; he was among the first to contend with professional prejudice against doctors delivering babies, and his work helped to make it a respected branch of medicine. Topics include blood-letting; premature birth; rupture, inversion, haemorrhage and retroversion of the uterus; a reply to Dr. Peachy Harrison re impregnation; observation on Burns' "History of the Gravid Uterus;" sudden alteration of the color of the hair; use of volatile tincture of guaiacum in Catamenia; puerperal convulsions; dysmenorrhoea; suppression of menses; Bell's paper on the muscularity of the uterus and much more. iv, 9-479 pp. Good condition in the original tan leather with black and gilt spine labels - foxing and browning throughout, rubbing and wear to the edges of the boards, and a bit of fraying on ends of spine - but overall a sturdy and tightly bound copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Third Edition Enlarged. Octavo. 625pp + 18 engraved plates. Recently rebound in light blue cloth with leather label. Pages foxed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1826 leather bound hardcover edition in very good condition. The binding is strong and square. It appears that the top two corners of the leather binding have been skillfully repaired as the leather does not entirely match, but the end papers are excellent and show no sign of a historical repair to the covers. There are two previous owner's signatures on the ffep. The pages are tanned and there is slight foxing. 557 Pgs.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good with no dust jacket. First Edition. Ex-Library; [4]. iv, 9-479 pages; Bound in full sheep leather. Boards detached but present. Spine and red morocco label with chipping. Normal library markings. Text is sound with scattered light foxing. Textblock is sound and bright. 8.75 x 5.25". …

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. xii, [9]-602 p. 22 cm. Frontispiece, one unnumbered plate within text, and 13 plates at rear. Full leather. Ink signature of Charles G. Greene (1826) on front pastedown and title page. Dampstains to first pages and front endpapers stuck together. Foxing throughout. The physician William Potts Dewees (1768 1841) was best known for his work in obstetrics, being described in American Medical Biographies as "so famous that no parturient woman of the time considered herself safe in other hands." This book introduced ideas from British and continental European physicians, especially Jean-Louis Baudelocque, and became the standard reference on obstetrics in the United States for a time.…

First Edition. First edition of the first American textbook of gynecology. Dewees was as Adjunct Professor of Mid-wifery at the University of Pennsylvania. Includes chapters on tumors, displacement of the uterus, prolapse of the uterus, milk abscess of the breast, et al. 557 pages including index and 12 full-page illustrations (2 folding) with explanations and 4 pages of ads at rear; plus one full-page illustration inserted following p.316. Some darkening around page edges and scattered staining throughout, lower corners of several rear plates stained otherwise internally aged but still relatively clean. Freshly rebound in gilt-decorated quarter leather with gilt-lettered leather label and marbled boards. Speert, America 127. Rutkow GY1. THE FIRST AMERICAN TEXTBOOK OF GYNECOLOGY.…