Mar 08, 2007 - Sale 2107

Sale 2107 - Lot 34

Price Realized: $ 270
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Estimate: $ 100 - $ 200
BEARD, GEORGE MILLER. A Practical Treatise on Nervous Exhaustion (Neurasthenia) * American Nervousness: Its Causes and Consequences. Together, 2 volumes. 8vo and small 8vo, original cloth, second spine chipped at top and bottom, with white ink shelf number. New York, 1880; 1881

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first editions. "Beard introduced and popularized the concept of nervous exhaustion, for which he coined the term 'neurasthenia' " (Norman). Garrison-Morton 4846 (first work); Norman 145, 147.