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Hardcover, blue genuine top-grain cowhide binding with raised spine lettered in gold and gilt stamped cover design in 22 kt gold. Includes bound in silk ribbon marker, specially commissioned marbled end-papers designed by Richard J. Wolfe and all edges gilt. 495 pages. Translated from the French, with additions, by E.K. Hunt, M.D. Publisher’s 16 page explanatory pamphlet laid-in along with personalized members book-plate inducating this a copy 921. Special limited edition printed for the members of The Classics of Medicine Library, first edition thus. Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol (1772-1840) was a French physician who specialized in psychiatry during the first half of the 19th-century. “Esquirol anticipated modern views in his suggestion that some mental illnesses may be caused by emotional disturbances rather than by organic brain damage…” [being] “the first to combine precise clinical descriptions with the statistical analysis of mental illnesses.” No previous ownership marks. A clean, tight, fresh and unmarked copy, pristine and like new. As new.