Hamilton, Alexander A Treatise on the Management of Female Complaints

Hamilton, Alexander A Treatise on the Management of Female Complaints and of Children in Early Infancy. Edinburgh: for Peter Hill, 1792. First edition, 8vo, contemporary marbled boards, rebacked, vellum tips, small section of loss to head of spine, boards rubbed, contemporary ownership inscriptions to front board and title-page, monogram book-label and tape residue to front free endpaper, title-page slightly finger-marked and with small tear to gutter [ESTC T117281]; Chambers, Robert. Ancient Sea-Margins, as Memorials of Changes in the Relative Level of Sea and Land. Edinburgh: W. & R. Chambers, 1848. First edition, 8vo, contemporary tan calf, device of the Northern Lighthouse Board gilt to covers, tinted lithographic frontispiece of a view from the links at St Andrews (mounted), folding map of Lochaber (backed on linen), half-title discarded; and others (these not collated): James Macpherson, The Poems of Ossian, A New Edition, London: A Strahan, 1790 (2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary mottled calf gilt); George Buchanan, Poemata quae exstant, Amsterdam, 1687 (16mo, contemporary calf, engraved title-page, joints cracked); Samuel Johnson, Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, 1860 (contemporary half calf); Numb. 15, Minutes of the Proceedings in Parliament Monday 4. November 1706, Edinburgh: heirs and successors of Andrew Anderson, 1706 (single bifolium); and two part-sets of Scott Qty: (23) Note: A Treatise of the Management of Female Complaints is nominally a revised edition of the author's A Treatise of Midwifery, first published in 1781, but in practice so extensively updated as to constitute a new work: 'In correcting it for a third edition ... he perceived that many improvements might be made, which would render it more extensively useful than formerly; but he found that these could not be introduced without altering completely the form and style of the book' (preface, p. vi).