Mar 08, 2007 - Sale 2107

Sale 2107 - Lot 5

Price Realized: $ 360
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
AUSTIN, THOMAS JAMES. A Practical Account of General Paralysis, its Mental and Physical Symptoms, Statistics, Causes, Seat, and Treatment. Half-title bound at end, followed by publisher's 32-page catalogue dated October 1859. 8vo, original cloth, rebacked retaining original backstrip. London, 1858

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first edition. "The first monograph on general paralysis of the insane . . . superseded only 1880 by W. J. Mickle's account of the disease"--Hunter & Macalpine, page 1052. Rieber & Gach 13 ("one of the first books on neuropsychology in the 19th century and the first monograph on syphilitic insanity").