Mar 08, 2007 - Sale 2107

Sale 2107 - Lot 117

Price Realized: $ 1,320
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
DAGONET, HENRI. Traité Élémentaire et Pratique des Maladies Mentales. Folding lithographed map showing the location of psychiatric hospitals in France. Publisher's 48-page catalogue dated January 1862. first edition * Nouveau Traité Élémentaire et Pratique des Maladies Mentales. 8 mounted woodburytype plates depicting 33 mental patients; folding lithographed map showing the location of psychiatric hospitals in France. Publisher's catalogues at end dated November 1875 and May 1876. Together, 2 volumes. 8vo, first in modern linen with original front wrapper laid down, second in original cloth, spine slightly faded; scattered foxing in second volume. Paris, 1862; 1876

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The Nouveau Traité is the second edition of the first work, revised, with the addition of the woodburytypes, "one of the earliest applications of this photographic process to medical iconography"--Norman 568. The Truthful Lens 41.