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De Melancholia et Morbis Melancholicis. Tomus Primus. [… Tomus Alter].
[Lorry, Anne-Charles (1726-1783)].
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Lutetiæ Parisiorum, Apud P. Guillelmum Cavelier, M DC LXV [1765]. 8:o. (4) pp., pp. vij-xvj, 399 pp. + viij, 429 pp.Contemporary full leather with six marked bands, red title labels and gilt flowers to spine in compartments. Red edges. 2 volumes.First part lacks leaf A2 (as usual). Second volume with reparied (?) foot of spine, cracked lower outer hinges. Some light foxing and damp staining occur. Part I: Page 51 misnumbered 21, 102 misnumbered 1æ2. Part II: 212 misnumbered 112, 239 misnumbered 139, 322 misnumbered 222, 366 misnumbered 266. Page 429 with some minor paper loss at upper outer corner. From the library of Denis Leigh, with his name label on fly-leaf.
19 750 kr
Norman Catalogue 1391 ‘Lorry showed how one could make use of the mind's influence on the body in curing melancholias’. Garrison & Morton 4920. Hirsch III, p. 843. Hunter & McAlpine 736. Neuberger-Pagel pp. 641-642. Wellcome Cat III:547. First edition. According to Worldcat this edition only registred in 4 libraries worldwide. The most important book on mental diseases published in France in the eighteenth century. The work deals not only with melancholy, but with mental diseases in general.



