(inscribed to Émile Zola) Émile François Eugène Sémérie
Des symptomes intellectuels de la folie - Exemplaire d'Emile Zola[On the Intellectual Symptoms of Madness — Émile Zola’s Copy]
Ernest Leroux|Paris 1875 (1879)|12.2 x 11.8 cm|Broché
Second edition (the dedication to Pierre Laffitte is dated 1879).
A study of madness from a positivist perspective, based on the work of Auguste Comte.
The dedicatee, Pierre Laffitte, was the editor of the review "Le Positivisme".
Spine cracked with small losses, occasional foxing, and a horizontal crease at the foot of the upper cover, small marginal tears on the cover, firts cover reattached.
With a fine signed presentation inscription from Emile François Eugène Sémérie to Émile Zola on the half-title: "A Mr. Émile Zola. Sémérie, d'Aix" (the final word underlined).
The close connections between positivism and naturalism, the literary d
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