Oct 12, 2023 - Sale 2648

Sale 2648 - Lot 259

Price Realized: $ 812
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 900
Perfect, William (1737-1809)
Select Cases in the Different Species of Insanity.

Rochester: Printed and Sold by W. Gillman, sold also by J. Murray & J. Bew, 1787.

Third edition, with added material, octavo, first published under the title: Methods of Cure and Cases of Insanity; half-title present; bound in modern half calf, some browning at the back, generally a nicely preserved copy, 8 1/4 x 5 1/8 in.

In its first edition, Perfect's text occupied 135 pages, next it grew to 217 pages. The present edition is 335 pages long.

ESTC T126963.

From Dr. Michael Stone's Psychiatry Collection.