De la folie, considérée dans ses rapports avec les questions medico-judiciares

by Charles Chrétien Henri Marc

$500 · Offered by Rootenberg Rare Books

First edition

Paris: Bailliere, 1840. 2 vols. 8vo. xxiii, 560; 738 pp. FIRST EDITION. Frontispiece lithographed portrait. Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, edges sprinkled red, green silk markers; a little foxed, otherwise a nice set. Item #19756 First edition, an exhaustive forensic analysis of mental illness. In the first volume, the author, a French psychiatrist who specialized in monomania,

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