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The anatomist dissected, or, The man-midwife finely brought to bed : being an examination of the conduct of Mr. St. André, touching the late pretended rabbit-bearer; as it appears from his own narrative / by Lemuel Gulliver, surgeon and anatomist to the kings of Lilliput and Blefuscu, and fellow of the Academy of Sciences in Balnibarbi.

Accession number
PML 9313.5
Creator
Gulliver, Lemuel, pseud.
Published
Westminster : Printed by and for A. Campbell, and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1727.
Credit line
Purchased in the Toovey collection, 1899.
Notes
Head and tailpieces; initial.
Lemuel Gulliver is a pseudonym.
Library's copy forms part of a bound volume (PML 9313) of collected materials pertaining to the notorious case of "rabbit woman" Mary Toft of Godalming; the contents dated 1726-ca. 1819, and including: 11 printed tracts and specimens of satirical verse and prose, 8 prints, 1 pen and ink portrait of Mary Toft by G.P. Harding, and an original manuscript transcription of the "Predictions of William Whiston". All individual items forming the volume have been cataloged separately.
Description
[1], 34 p. ; 20 cm
Provenance
From the libraries of George Nassau (sale 16 Feb. 1824); and Thomas Jolley (sale 15 June 1852).
Classification
Department