Author: Mauquest de La Motte, Guillaume.
Title: A general treatise of midwifry: illustrated with upwards of four hundred curious observations and reflexions concerning that art. Written originally in French by La Motte, sworn surgeon and man midwife at Valognes. And translated into English by Thomas Tomkyns, surgeon.
Description: London: printed for James Waugh, at the Turk's Head, in Gracechurch-Street, 1746. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. xx, 536pp. In this edition there is a colon after "midwifery." Contemporary calf, rebacked. From the library of James Young Simpson with his bookplate, and an additional plate affixed to the front free endpaper to the memory of Sir Simpson. ESTC T100593. There are two versions of this edition; in the first one, there is a colon after "midwifry" (ESTC T100593). In the second version, there is a comma after "midwifry" (ESTC T200419). The second version is by far the least common. Very Good.

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