Mar 08, 2007 - Sale 2107

Sale 2107 - Lot 136

Price Realized: $ 1,920
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
ESQUIROL, JEAN-ÉTIENNE-DOMINIQUE. Des Maladies Mentales Considérées sous les Rapports Médical, Hygiénique et Médico-Légal. Half-titles. Publisher's 48-page catalogue at end of Volume 1 dated August 1849. 2 volumes. With atlas of 27 engraved plates comprising 25 depictions of mental patients by Ambroise Tardieu, statistical table, and folding plan of the asylum of Charenton. Together, 3 volumes. 8vo, text volumes in contemporary 1/4 calf with flat spines gilt in romantic style, morocco lettering pieces slightly rubbed, atlas in original wrappers, lacking backstrip, front cover mounted; contents of all 3 volumes variously foxed, light dampstain in upper margin of Volume 2 opening leaves, circular label pasted on plate list in atlas affecting a few letters. Paris, 1838 [i. e., 1849]

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first edition, later printing, of the first modern textbook of psychiatry, "notable for its striking illustrations of the insane"--Garrison-Morton 4929 (also 4798). Norman 724; Zilboorg, page 390.