Presentation Copy of a Lecture on Hallucinations
Essai sur les hallucinations. Discours prononcé devant l'Administration de l'Hospice de l'Antiquaille de Lyon, dans sa séance publique du 3 Mai 1836; pour l'ouverture des cours de Clinique sur l'Aliénation Mentale et les Maladies Syphilitiques
Publication: Lyon: Imprimerie Typographique et Lithographique de Louis Perrin, 1836. First Edition.
Notes: An inscribed first edition of this lecture on hallucinations by a French doctor who reviews the literature on the subject and then provides case studies, including one of demonic possession (p. 63–64).
Bottex (1796–1849) published a number of studies on mental disease and insanity as well as treatises on syphilis and cholera.
[1–5] 6–75 [76: blank].
Edition + Condition: First edition (first printing). A very good copy in the original wrappers with a dense geometric pattern printed in yellow and green with the text in black. The wrappers are curling at the outer edge and have short tears; the page edges are uncut. There is an oval ownership stamp of J. Falret on the front cover and on the title page. This is presentation copy to another doctor, signed A Bottex, along the top margin of the wrapper.
Item No: #363634
Price: $250