Oct 12, 2023 - Sale 2648

Sale 2648 - Lot 265

Unsold
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
Tissot, Samuel Auguste David (1728-1797)
Three Essays: First on the Disorders of People of Fashion. Second, on Diseases Incidental to Literary and Sedentary Person, Third, on Onanism: or a Treatise upon the Disorders produced by Masturbation.

Dublin: James Williams, 1772.

First collected edition, each essay previously published separately, octavo, half-title present, with divisional titles for the second and third essays; bound in full contemporary English sheepskin, both boards detached; ex libris William Turton with his engraved armorial bookplate inside front board, hole torn in the inner margin of the first three leaves; half-title reinforced along inner gutter; textblock broken in half, in need of binding repair, 7 7/8 x 4 3/4 in.

ESTC T76342.

From Dr. Michael Stone's Psychiatry Collection.