[Rarebooks] FS: 1st ed. of Pinel's foundational text of modern psychiatry. Paris: 1801

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(MEDICINE) Pinel, Philippe. TRAITE MEDICO-PHILOSOPHIQUE SUR L'ALIENATION MENTALE, OU LA MANIE. Avec Figures Representant des Formes de Crane ou des Portraits d'Alienes. Paris: Chez Richard, Caille et Ravier. An IX (1801). First edition. lvi,318pp. Illustrated with 2 copper engraved plates and a folding table. Cont. mottled calf, calf spine label, over paste paper boards (lightly rubbed). Front pastedown with bookplates of Psychiatrist Clements Collard Fry (1892-1955) and the Yale Medical Library. Small round rubber stamp, "Duplicate. Withdrawn from the Yale Medical Library," on the pastedowns.    $1,000.00 (trade discount allowed)
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