Oct 27, 2015 - Sale 2395

Sale 2395 - Lot 352

Price Realized: $ 469
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
MANDEVILLE, BERNARD. A Treatise of the Hypochondriack and Hysterick Diseases. xxii, [10], 380 pages. 8vo, 199x125 mm, contemporary calf, spine worn, ends chipped, covers detached; occasional light soiling, stain along fore edge of last 2 leaves, free endpapers lacking London: J. Tonson, 1730

Additional Details

Third edition of a work originally published in 1711, "possibly the first psychiatric self-help book" (Norman), written for patients rather than practitioners. Hunter & Macalpine, page 296; Norman 1432.