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ESQUIROL, Jean tienne Dominique (1772-1840). Des maladies mentales, consideres sous les rapports mdical, hyginique, et mdico-lgal. Paris and London: J.-B. Ballire; Lyon: Ch. Savy; Leipzig: L. Michaelson, 1838.
2 vols. in 4, 8o (211 x 131mm.) plus atlas (222 x 146mm). Half-titles, text vols. interleaved with blank foolscap paper; atlas with titlepage, 2-page table of plates, 26 engraved plates by Ambroise Tardieu and a large folding engraved plan of grounds and hospital of Charenton by Le Blanc (scattered foxing to some text leaves, folding plan slightly foxed and with small fold tear). Text: contemporary quarter purple morocco and marbled paper boards, spines sparingly gilt and gilt-lettered (extremities slightly rubbed); Atlas: quarter black morocco and marbled boards (boards rubbed).
Provenance: Jean tienne Dominique Esquirol, WITH THE AUTHOR'S EXTENSIVE AUTOGRAPH CORRECTIONS, DELETIONS AND TEXTUAL ADDITIONS in pencil and ink on many text pages, interleaves, and on separately attached sheets, these extending from the beginning of vol.1 up to p.512 (perhaps indicating that Esquirol was not able to complete his revisions before his death in 1840).
FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST MODERN TEXTBOOK OF PSYCHIATRY, THE AUTHOR'S OWN REVISED AND CORRECTED COPY, probably in preparation for a new edition of the work (no revised edition was ever published). In this comprehensive work, Esquirol, the most eminent pupil of the pioneer Philippe Pinel (1745-1826), "summarized the experience gained over a lifetime of observation and treatment of mental illness," pioneered the use of statistical methods for studies of insanity, and established an accurate terminology and a careful typology of the various forms of mental illness, all based on clinical observations. "He was the first to distinguish between hallucinations and illusions, and between dementia and idiocy; he also provided the classic definition of paresis, coined the term 'monomania' (a concept foreshadowing the modern view of schizophrenia) and distinguished certain depressive states ('lypemanias') from other psychoses" (Norman). The delicately engraved plates which constitute the atlas depict various mental patients (whose illness is specified in the table of plates). Garrison-Morton 4797; Hunter & Macalpine, pp.731-738; Norman 724. (5)
2 vols. in 4, 8
Provenance: Jean tienne Dominique Esquirol, WITH THE AUTHOR'S EXTENSIVE AUTOGRAPH CORRECTIONS, DELETIONS AND TEXTUAL ADDITIONS in pencil and ink on many text pages, interleaves, and on separately attached sheets, these extending from the beginning of vol.1 up to p.512 (perhaps indicating that Esquirol was not able to complete his revisions before his death in 1840).
FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST MODERN TEXTBOOK OF PSYCHIATRY, THE AUTHOR'S OWN REVISED AND CORRECTED COPY, probably in preparation for a new edition of the work (no revised edition was ever published). In this comprehensive work, Esquirol, the most eminent pupil of the pioneer Philippe Pinel (1745-1826), "summarized the experience gained over a lifetime of observation and treatment of mental illness," pioneered the use of statistical methods for studies of insanity, and established an accurate terminology and a careful typology of the various forms of mental illness, all based on clinical observations. "He was the first to distinguish between hallucinations and illusions, and between dementia and idiocy; he also provided the classic definition of paresis, coined the term 'monomania' (a concept foreshadowing the modern view of schizophrenia) and distinguished certain depressive states ('lypemanias') from other psychoses" (Norman). The delicately engraved plates which constitute the atlas depict various mental patients (whose illness is specified in the table of plates). Garrison-Morton 4797; Hunter & Macalpine, pp.731-738; Norman 724. (5)