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MOREL, BÉNÉDICT-AUGUSTIN. Traité des Dégénérescences Physiques, Intellectuels et Morales de l'Espèce Humaine. xix, [1], 700 pages, including half-title. With atlas containing 12 lithographed plates and 23 pages of text, including half-title. Together, 2 volumes. Text volume 8vo, 209x133 mm, in contemporary 1/4 leather, front joint scuffed, starting at top, contents toned with scattered foxing; atlas 4to, 305x218 mm, in contemporary 1/4 calf, spine ends chipped, front cracked at top and bottom, rear joint starting, contents generally clean. Paris: J.-B. Baillière, 1857
first edition. "The main support for the theory of mental illness as regression which dominated psychiatric practice for several decades . . . his work helped bring about a de-emphasis on therapeutic work in the psychiatry of his time. The atlas reproduces by lithography some of the earliest photographs of the insane"--Garrison-Morton 4933.1. Norman 1545.
