BURNS, John 1775-1850. The Anatomy of the Gravid Uterus, With Practical Inferences Relative to the Pregnancy and Labour. Pub. GLASGOW: At the University Press, printed for James Mundell, for Mundell and son Edinburgh; J. Murdoch, Glasgow; and Longman and Rees, and J. Johnson, London, 1799. Burns was professor of Surgery at Glasgow, author of several works on midwifery. Original half leather binding, excision to the title page and darkening to the preliminaries. Water marking to top half of pages 138-148, otherwise generally clean and well bound. Previous owners, Reeves, Charles Evans, G. Geoghegan,Edward Ford. From the library of Charles Evans Reeves (1827-1880) of Melbourne. Ex Libris Anatomica K.F. Russell (211x130mm)