Mar 08, 2007 - Sale 2107

Sale 2107 - Lot 93

Price Realized: $ 180
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
INSCRIBED COMBE, ANDREW. Observations on Mental Derangement. 2 ad leaves at end. 8vo, original cloth with paper lettering piece, spine heavily darkened, book block loose in binding; uncut. Edinburgh, 1831

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first edition. inscribed by combe to Sir George S. Mackenzie, Bart. "In Observations on Mental Derangement . . . Combe maintained that mental disorder was in fact a 'symptom of cerebral disease,' and therefore to be regarded in the same way as the diseases of any other organ" (ODNB). Hunter & Macalpine, pages 812-818; Rieber & Gach 102 ("an important contribution to psychiatric thought").