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Volume One.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Original Edition. The Lancet Extra Numbers, No. 1 containing "a series of papers on obstetric cases in which the help of a registered medical practitioner has to be invoked by a certified midwife". Covers problems encountered during labor and delivery - the toxemias of pregnancy, genital infections and sores, premature labor, placenta previa and antepartum hemorrhage, pelvic deformities, various fetal presentations including breech, delayed labor, post partum hemorrhage, retained placentas, etc. Illustrations include text illustrations and color plates. Content is VG; the exterior has edgewear, fading/soils, and the cover is detaching from the textblock. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. A two volume hardcover set with no dust wrappers. Clean and tight throughout. Postage outside the UK at cost.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. vg EXLIBRARY with usual marks, will require additional overseas or priority postage.

Revised Edition 4to. dark green cloth hardback, gilt, no dust jacket. 827pp., Indexed, profusely illustrated with diagrams. Previous owner's name and date (1974) in ink to front pastedown. Light soiling to endpapers and foxing to foredge. A couple of small marks to boards, else a Good+ Copy. (Shelf 92) PLEASE NOTE: Very heavy BOOK (2.3 kg+) Postage rates vary according to destination, weight and speed. For an accurate overseas quote PLEASE either call or email us before ordering. [AbeBooks shipping quote is based on items weighing up to 1 kilo only]. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Illustrations, Plans, Tables (illustrator). First UK Edition. Heavy books no extra postage within UK. Regret we cannot supply outside UK. Original published in 1948. .Two volumes complete. Blue spines over decorated blue cloth, bright gilt titling.T (1) xiv + 324pp, 20 illustrations, plans, tables. (2) x + 252pp, 15 illus, plans, tables. Originally published by the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers. Part of forward "TWICE within a quarter of a century American shipbuilders have been called upon for extraordinary effort to meet great world crises. In 1915, when the German submarine depredations of World War I and the mounting needs of the Allies demanded limitless sea transportation, American shipyards swung into action. An industry that in 1914 had produced only twenty-four new merchant ships of 130,000 gross tons and twenty-three naval vessels of 105,000 displacement tons, four years later turned out 714 merchant ships of 3,370,000 gross tons and 180 naval vessels of 233,000 displacement tons-an accomplishment little short of miraculous. This achievement was a controlling factor in winning victory for the Allies. After this building program, the industry shrank to near prewar dimensions and for more than a decade survived precariously on diminished orders for new construction for the Navy and the Merchant Marine. In the 1930's, vessels built for the Maritime Commission and the Navy in the post-panic years began to revitalize American shipyards. In 1939, the approaching war again challenged us. Twenty-eight merchant ships of 242,000 gross tons and twenty-seven naval vessels of 66,000 displacement tons were delivered by an industry employing 120,000 men in that year and the value of ships built and repair work done amounted to $250,000,000. Four years later 2,000,000 men and women delivered ships to the value of thirteen billion dollars. Eighteen hundred ninety-six merchant vessels of over 13 ,000,000 gross tons and 18,294 naval vessels of 2,586,000 displacement tons were built in that single year, dwarfing the record of World War I in supplying the demands of the Navy, of the Army, and of wartime commerce. There is real romance in the creating of ships to meet the needs of war and of ever-changing world commerce. Through the long years when shipbuilding has been in the doldrums our faith in its future has heartened us, and when the call for gigantic effort has come it has been met with courage and enthusiasm. Few shipbuilders have made substantial fortunes, but many have experienced the satisfaction of work well done and of useful service performed. Size: 4to.

Deux volumes in-4, X-353pp + IX-642pp, reliure pleine percaline brique de l'éditeur - texte en langue anglaise, nombreuses fig et planches dépliantes - qq marques éparses à la percaline, cependant reliures solides et agréables, intérieurs bien frais, bon exemplaire, voir photos jointes The Society Of Naval Architects And Marine Engineers.