Mar 08, 2007 - Sale 2107

Sale 2107 - Lot 57

Price Realized: $ 390
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
BLATCHFORD, THOMAS WINDEATT. An Inaugural Dissertation on Feigned Diseases. * REID, JOHN. Essays on Hypochondriacal and Other Nervous Affections. Together, 2 volumes. 8vo, first in contemporary 1/2 sheep, rebacked with morocco, with small piece torn from one leaf affecting a few words, second an ex-library copy in soiled modern cloth, contents variously foxed. New York, 1817; Philadelphia, 1817

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first edition and first american edition, respectively. Austin 211, 1592; Hunter & Macalpine, pages 722-25 (1816 London original edition of the second work: "Reid distinguished the intrinsic manifestations of mental illness from the picture of chronic insanity under asylum conditions").
The first title is bound with 2 additional works by Blatchford: Homoeopathy Illustrated. An Address . . . Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. 1843 Observations on Equivocal Generation: prepared as Evidence in a Suit for Slander. 1844. The suit was brought by a woman alleged to have become pregnant by a dog.