Mar 08, 2007 - Sale 2107

Sale 2107 - Lot 133

Price Realized: $ 1,080
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
INSCRIBED EARLE, PLINY. Institutions for the Insane in Prussia, Austria and Germany. 8vo, original cloth with paper lettering piece, spine faded, chipped at top; light marginal dampstaining at beginning and end. Utica: New York State Lunatic Asylum, 1853

Additional Details

first edition. with a signed inscription: "Elisha Bartlett, M.D. from his friend and cousin, Pliny Earle," and with correction in Earle's hand in lower margin of page 27. "Earle did much to diffuse knowledge of views on insanity and how the insane were treated in Germany"--Hunter & Macalpine, page 1014.