Oct 20, 2009 - Sale 2190

Sale 2190 - Lot 171

Price Realized: $ 960
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
RUSH, BENJAMIN. Medical Inquiries and Observations upon the Diseases of the Mind. [iii]-367, [1], 4 pages, including 2 leaves of publisher's ads at end. 8vo, contemporary tree sheep with leather lettering piece, upper cover corners worn through; contents browned, lacks front free endpaper. Bookplates of Thomas Bucklin, Charles L. Willmarth, and Haskell F. Norman. Philadelphia, 1812

Additional Details

first edition; second issue, with gathering H reset. "The first psychiatric treatise produced by an American native"--Norman 1867. Austin 1670; Garrison-Morton 4924; Heirs of Hippocrates 1068; Hunter & Macalpine, pages 662-670.