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Lorry's treatise on Melancholia 2 vols. 1765

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Title: De Melancholia et Morbis Melancholicis
Author: Lorry, Anne Charles de
Description: 2 volumes. [iii]-xvi, 399; viii, 429 pp. (8vo) 8½x5¾, period (original?) thin boards backed with mottled paper, gilt spine labels. First Edition.Lorry's treatise on melancholia, in which he shoes how one could make use of the mind's influence on the body in curing melancholia. This is the Haskell Norman copy, with his bookplate on the front pastedown of Vol. I, along with ticket of Paris bookseller Arthur Lauria. Wellcome III p.547; Norman 1391.
Heading: Place Published: Paris
Publisher: P. Guillelmum Cavelier
Date Published: 1765