📚 Obstetrics

Books with obstetrics on their catalogue record, first published between 1772 and 2009, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject obstetrics in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 10,022 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Tokology A Book For Every Woman	Alice Bunker Stockham	1885	34
	Obstetrics for nurses	Joseph B. De Lee	1904	32
	A text-book of veterinary obstetrics	George Fleming	1878	27
	Revelation of childbirth	Grantly Dick-Read	1943	23
	Obstetrics	J. Whitridge Williams	1903	22
	Outlines of the theory and practice of midwifery	Hamilton, Alexander	1784	18
	A text-book of obstetrics	Barton Cooke Hirst	1898	18
	An essay on the uterine hæmorrhage which precedes the delivery of the full-grown foetus	Rigby, Edward	1775	17
	Fundamentals of obstetrics and gynaecology	Llewellyn-Jones, Derek.	1969	17
	Obstetrics	Charles D. Meigs	1849	16
	Essays in Zen Buddhism	Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki	1927	16
	Handbook of obstetric medicine	Catherine Nelson-Piercy	1997	15
	Obstetrics and gynaecology	Lawrence Impey	1999	15
	The principles and practice of obstetrics	Joseph B. De Lee	1913	14
	A treatise on the management of pregnant and lying-in women	Charles White	1772	13
	American eclectic obstetrics	John King	1855	13
	Recent advances in obstetrics and gynaecology	Aleck W. Bourne	1926	13
	Obstetrical practice	Alfred Charles Beck	1935	13
	Textbook for midwives	Margaret F. Myles	1956	13
	Gynaecology for nurses and gynaecological nursing	Comyns Berkeley	1912	11
	A treatise on the science and practice of midwifery	W. S. Playfair	1876	10
	The science and art of midwifery	William Thompson Lusk	1889	9
	Birth atlas	Robert Latou Dickinson	1940	9
	Expectant motherhood	Nicholson J. Eastman	1940	9
	Lying-in	Richard W. Wertz	1977	9
	A short textbook of midwifery	G. F. Gibberd	1944	8
	Human labor and birth	Harry Oxorn	1964	8
	Everywoman	Llewellyn-Jones, Derek.	1971	8
	Intrapartum care	Soo Downe	2009	8
	Midwifery illustrated	J. P. Maygrier	1833	7

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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