Oct 24, 2019 - Sale 2521

Sale 2521 - Lot 184

Price Realized: $ 406
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
CONOLLY, JOHN. An Inquiry Concerning the Indications of Insanity. vi, 496 pages, including half-title. 8vo, 217x136 mm, later 19th-century 1/2 morocco, joints rubbed; contents generally clean, contemporary owner's signature on title. Bookplate of the psychiatrist Charles W. Pilgrim (1855-1934). London: (Gaulter for) John Taylor, 1830

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first edition. "Conolly . . . recognized that mental illness cannot be understood without knowledge of the healthy mind, and his Inquiry was the first book to attempt to link normal and abnormal mental states"--Norman 503. Hunter & Macalpine, pages 805-809.