Mar 08, 2007 - Sale 2107

Sale 2107 - Lot 297

Price Realized: $ 840
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
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, modern tree sheep with morocco lettering piece; contents heavily browned; blank outer margin of O4 excised. 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.