Mar 08, 2007 - Sale 2107

Sale 2107 - Lot 74

Price Realized: $ 180
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
BUCKNILL, JOHN CHARLES, Sir; and TUKE, DANIEL HACK. A Manual of Psychological Medicine. Lithographed frontispiece after photographs of asylum inmates. Publisher's 32-page catalogue at end dated November 1859. 8vo, original cloth, rebacked retaining worn original backstrip. London, 1858

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first edition of the first comprehensive British textbook on insanity. "It contains chapters on history, influence of civilization, definition, classification, forms, statistics, diagnosis, pathology and treatment of insanity, and ends with an appendix of cases"--Hunter & Macalpine, page 1069. Garrison-Morton 4934.