Oct 24, 2019 - Sale 2521

Sale 2521 - Lot 240

Price Realized: $ 562
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 1,000
(PSYCHIATRY--FRENCH AUTHORS.) Group of 16 works in 15 volumes. Pomme and Bienville 12mo, the rest 8vo, various bindings. first editions except for Bienville and Pinel. Paris, 1765-1845; Amsterdam, 1768 and 1772

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Lorry, Anne-Charles. De melancholia et morbis melancholicis. xvi, 399, [1]; viii, 429 pages. 2 volumes. Modern morocco; light to moderate foxing. 1765.

Pomme, Pierre. Réflexions sur les Affections Vaporeuses ou Examen du Traité des Vapeurs des Deux Sexes. 239 pages. Early 19th-century boards, spine faded; scattered light foxing. 1768.

Bienville, J.-D.-T. de. La Nymphomanie. xv, [1], 178 pages. Contemporary sheep gilt, worn; contents toned. Contemporary stamp of Eduard Caspar Jacobus von Siebold on title verso. Amsterdam, 1772.

Louyer-Villermay, Jean-Baptiste. Recherches Historiques et Médicales sur l'Hypocondrie. [iii]-xii, 195 pages, including half-title. 19th-century 1/4 mottled sheep gilt; minor foxing at beginning and end. 1802.

Prost, Pierre-Antoine. Essai Physiologique sur la Sensibilité. xl, 246, [2] pages, including half-title. 19th-century 1/4 morocco gilt; marginal dampstaining through first half of volume, opening leaves foxed. 1805. bound with: Louyer-Villermay, Jean-Baptiste. Recherches Historiques et Médicales sur l'Hypochondrie. [iii]-xii, 195 pages, including half-title. Scattered minor foxing. 1802. and: Bompard, Alexis. Considérations sur quelques Maladies de l'Encephale et de ses Dépendances. [4], iii, [1], 68 pages, including half-title. Contents toned with occasional foxing. 1827. and: Leuret, François; and Mitivié, Jules-Étienne-Frumental. De la Fréquence du Pouls chez les Aliénés. [iii]-xi, [1], 90 pages, including initial leaf ("À M. Esquirol Notre Maître et notre Ami, Leuret & Mitivié") and half-title. Marginal toning and foxing, dampstain in lower outer corners at end 1832.

Pinel, Philippe. Traité Médico-Philosophique sur l'Aliénation Mentale . . . Seconde Édition, entièrement refondue et très-augmentée. 2 engraved plates of skull types; 2 folding letterpress tables. [2], xxxii, 496 pages. Contemporary 1/2 sheep, rebacked; scattered minor foxing. 1809 .

Georget, Étienne. De la Folie. x, 511 pages, including half-title. Contemporary 1/4 sheep, lacking backstrip; moderate foxing, dampstaining in upper inner corners. 1820.

Calmeil, Louis-Florentin. De la Paralysie considerée chez les Aliénés. [4], ii, vi, 446 pages. 19th-century 1/4 sheep, spine faded; occasional heavy foxing. Stamp of the psychiatrist Jules Falret (1824-1902) on half-title. 1826.

Voisin, Félix. Des Causes Morales et Physiques des Maladies Mentales. xvi, 418, [2] pages, including errata leaf at end. 20th-century buckram; scattered minor foxing. 1826. Half-title inscribed and signed by voisin.

Broussais, François-Joseph-Victor. De l'Irritation et de la Folie. xxxii, 590, [1] pages, including half-title and errata leaf at end, with publisher's stamped signature on title verso. Contemporary boards, spine ends worn; moderate foxing. 1828.

Brachet, Jean-Louis. Recherches sur la Nature et la Siège de l'Hystérie et de l'Hypochondrie. 180 pages. Modern cloth, contemporary wrappers bound in; moderate foxing, half-title soiled. 1832.

Marc, Charles-Chrétien-Henri. De la Folie. xxiii, 560; [4], 738 pages, including half-titles. 2 volumes. Later 19th-century cloth by Charles Magnier, spines darkened and dulled; scattered minor foxing, occasional marginal dampstaining. 1840.

Brierre de Boismont, Alexandre-Jacques-François. Des Hallucinations; ou, Histoire Raisonnée des Apparitions, des Visions, des Songes, de l'Extase, du Magnétisme et du Somnambulisme. viii, 615, [1] pages, including half-title. Publisher's 32-page catalogue at end dated November 1844. Modern cloth, original front wrapper bound in; scattered foxing; uncut. 1845.