Traité médico-philosophique sur l'aliénation mentale, ou la manie[Medico-Philosophical Treatise on Mental Alienation, or Mania]
Rare first edition illustrated with one table and two plates showing cranial shapes and portraits of the insane.
See Garrison Morton, 4922. En français dans le texte, 203. Kelly, p. 326. Foucault, Histoire de la folie, 523. Jan Goldstein, Console and classify, 65. Bariéty & Coury, 882.
Half calf binding with corners, smooth spine decorated with gilt floral and ornamental motifs, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, sprinkled edges; modern pastiche binding.
Some foxing mainly affecting the second volume.
Bound at the end of the volume is Jean-Etienne Esquirol’s "Des Établissemens consacrés aux aliénés en France, et des moyens de les amélio
