Mar 08, 2007 - Sale 2107

Sale 2107 - Lot 226

Price Realized: $ 270
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
LORRY, ANNE-CHARLES DE. De melancholia et morbis melancholicis. Half-title in first volume, not called for in second. 2 volumes. 8vo, late 18th-/early 19th-century tree calf, flat spines handsomely gilt with morocco lettering pieces, Volume 1 front joint cracked and chipped at bottom. Paris: Guillaume Cavelier, 1765

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first edition of a treatise on depression, the most important book on mental diseases to appear in France in the 18th century. Norman 1391; Zilboorg, page 302.