Mar 08, 2007 - Sale 2107

Sale 2107 - Lot 217

Price Realized: $ 1,080
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Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
KRAEPELIN, EMIL. Compendium der Psychiatrie. Zum Gebrauche für Studirende und Aerzte Small 8vo, original cloth, spine ends rubbed, cover corners bumped, front hinge cracked. Leipzig, 1883

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first edition. "Kraepelin . . . devised a new classification of insanity, in which mental diseases were divided into two broad categories: dementia praecox (schizophrenia), characterized by an inexorable downward course into mental derangement, and manic-depressive or episodic psychoses"--Norman 1235. Garrison-Morton 4941; Zilboorg, page 450.