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PINEL, Philippe (1745-1826). Trait medico-philosophique sur l'alination mentale, ou La manie...Seconde dition. Paris: J. Ant. Brosson, 1809.
8o (194 x 123mm). Half-title, printed folding table, two engraved plates (pp.71-72 torn at bottom with loss of several words). Nineteenth-century quarter calf and marbled paper boards, edges speckled (light rubbing). Provenance: Jean Louis Marc Alibert (1768-1837), dermatologist, author of the first French illustrated work on dermatology, Description des maladies de la peau (Paris, 1806) (presentation inscription from author on half-title).
PRESENTATION COPY of the second, enlarged edition. scribed by Pinel at top of title in ink: "A Monsieur Alibert de la part de l'auteur" (inscription slightly shaved by binder). Heirs of Hippocrates 1071 ("entirely recast and greatly enlarged"); Hunter & Macalpine, pp.602-610; Wellcome IV, p. 388; Norman 1702.
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PRESENTATION COPY of the second, enlarged edition. scribed by Pinel at top of title in ink: "A Monsieur Alibert de la part de l'auteur" (inscription slightly shaved by binder). Heirs of Hippocrates 1071 ("entirely recast and greatly enlarged"); Hunter & Macalpine, pp.602-610; Wellcome IV, p. 388; Norman 1702.