Yesterday's Muse Books

Burton, Robert; Jackson, Holbrook; Pullman, Philip

The Anatomy of Melancholy, in Three Volumes (The Folio Society)

London: The Folio Society, 2010. Hard Cover.

Fine volumes in a near fine publisher slipcase.

Three volume set. Marbled boards, gilt title on spine. Edited by Holbrook Jackson. Introduction by Philip Pullman. The Anatomy of Melancholy (full title: The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is: With all the Kinds, Causes.....

Price: $225.00

Cheyne, George

The Natural Method of Curing the Diseases of the Body, and the Disorders of the Mind Depending on the Body. in Three Parts. Part I. General Reflections on the Oeconomy of Nature in Animal Life. Part II. The Means and Methods for Preserving Life and Faculties; and Also Concerning the Nature and Cure of Acute, Contagious, and Cephalic Disorders. Part III. Reflections on the Nature and Cure of Particular Chronical Distempers.

London: Dan. Browne, without Temple Bar; R. Manby, on Ludgate-hill; J. Whiston and B. White, in Fleet-street; and A. Strahan, in Cornhill. 1753. Fifth Edition. Full-Leather.

Fifth edition. ESTC T53889. Joints beginning to split, spine toned and drying, boards faintly stained, ink name on front endpaper.

[xx], 316 pp. 8vo.....

Price: $300.00

Dickinson, Mahlon H.; Biddle, Cadwalader

Nineteenth Annual Report of the Board of Commissioners of Public Charities of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for 1888; Also the Report of the General Agent and Secretary Statistics, and The Report of the Committee on Lunacy. (Official Document, No. 12.)

Philadelphia: Office of Eastern Executive Committee, 1888. Hard Cover.

Boards rubbed, rear hinge beginning to loosen, ink initials and pencil gift note on front endpaper ('M.F. Kooser, Presented by The Hon. J.L. Pugh').

cxlv, 226 pp. 8vo. An early source of statistical information related to jails and penitentiaries, insane asylums.....

Price: $125.00

Lyon, Edmund

The Lyon Phonetic Manual (American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf. Circular of Information No. 2, 1891)

Rochester, N.Y. The Deaf-Mute Institution, 1891. Hard Cover.

Board edges rubbed, ink stamp on title page.

73 pp. Engraved illustrations of sign language throughout. Printed by the organization that later became Rochester School for the Deaf, which is now located at RIT. CONTENTS: Dedication; Preface; Introduction; Phonetic Manual: Explanatory Diagram.....

Price: $50.00

Morton, Richardi [Richard]

Opera Medica, in Tres Tomos Distributa. I. De Phthisi. II. De Morbis: Universal. Acutis. III. De Febribus: Inflammatoriis. - Editio ultima Emendatiori.

Amstelodami: Apud Donatum Donati, 1696. Hard Cover.

First edition. Boards and corners a bit rubbed, wax seal remnants on endpapers, ink name and date on title page ('Johann August Harnisch (?) Madrid: 1745'), ink note on rear endpaper.

[16], 206, [24], 142, [12], [38], 318, [18] pp. Engraved frontispiece, fold-outs.....

Price: $375.00

Voisin, Auguste

Traite De La Paralysie Generale Des Alienes [FRENCH TEXT]

Paris: Librairie J.-B. Bailliere Et Fils, 1879. Hard Cover.

Spine lightly rubbed, light stain on page base.

xvi, 540 pp. French text. Morocco spine over marbled boards, five raised spine bands, gilt titles, marbled endapers. 11 plates (2 including color) following text. A treatise on the general paralysis of the.....

Price: $325.00

Wilbur, H.B. [Hervey Backus]

Materialism in its Relations to the Causes, Conditions, and Treatment of Insanity.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1872. Soft Cover.

Wrappers loose (should be easily reparable), minor loss from spine head and foot, ink name and library stamp on front wrapper and title page, bookplate inside front wrapper.

35 pp. An assessment of the philosophical school of materialism by the superintendent.....

Price: $75.00