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Price: US$769.96 + shipping
Description: Eighth edition, folio, (vi), 46, (6), 434, (8 Index, 2 advertisement) pp, lacking the engraved title page. Some marking from plants being left in between several pages some time ago, light marginal soiling. Contemporary calf, rather worn, loss to the lower corner of the upper cover, recently rebacked. ".the most frequently reprinted psychiatric text. It may properly be called the first psychiatric cyclopaedia for nearly one thousand authors are cited, about half of them medical." Wing B6184. Hunter & MacAlpine pp 94-9. Printing and the Mind of Man 120. First published 1621.
Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom
Price: US$1322.50 + shipping
Description: Illustr title page, 13 x 8, later half leather, marbled boards with newer eps, 434 double column pp with Alphabetical table, covers quite rubbed, some scuffing and skinning to leather, leather spine label cracked, extremities bumped and fraying, hinges loose, contents toned with some scattered staining, old ink name and date on front fly, edges soiled, scattered worming, some pp chipped at corners (with some repaired), else a good, usable copy of the Eighth Ed.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$1610.50 + shipping
Description: 4to., pp.(viii),434,(viii) Index, (ii) publisher?s advert, contemporary half calf, 5 raised bands, contrasting red title label lettered in gilt, marbled boards, edges green, engraved pictorial title; small holes to Z3, GGG4, and QQQ3, closed tear to QQQ1, occasional marginal annotation, ink ownership autograph to upper margin of title, further ink ownership autograph, dated 1692, to title verso, ?Best Edition? neatly inked to front free endpaper, toning and surface soil to title, some toning and occasional foxing within, corners worn, with light wear to upper joint at lowest compartment, wear to paper at edges of boards, a very good copy.
Seller: Minster Gate Bookshop (est. 1970), YORK, United Kingdom
Robert Burton. The Anatomy of Melancholy. R.W. for Peter Parker, 1676.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Eighth edition of the first psychiatric encyclopedia, citing nearly 500 medical authors, and also a literary tour de force (Garrison-Morton 4918.1). This copy belonged to the US founding father and signer of the Declaration of Independence, Francis Hopkinson, with his personal bookplate affixed to the front endpaper. The eighth edition was the final seventeenth century edition, the next being published in 1800. With the original half title, 'the argument of the frontispiece' to its verso, an engraved title page and the scarce publisher's advertisements leaf. Finely bound in paneled speckled calf with gilt tooling and decorations. London: R.W. for Peter Parker, 1676. Small folio, modern paneled speckled calf with gilt tooling and floral sprays to covers, seven raised bands to spine, decorated and ruled in gilt, calf spine label lettered in gilt; (viii), 434, [8 index], [2 ads], blank. New pastedowns and endpapers, with Hopkinson's bookplate re-adhered to the new front pastedown. Binding remains firm and sturdy. Minimal shelfwear to covers with a small dent to the back cover. Owner's signature to title page with details and the date of purchase to the final blank, scattered foxing and browning, mostly to the first few pages, a couple small burn marks and chips to a few pages. With a page of eighteenth century notes in Latin laid in. Overall, a really quite beautiful copy.
Seller: Kevin Sell, The Rare Book Sleuth, IOBA, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Burton, Robert. The Anatomy of Melancholy. Peter Parker, London, 1676.
Price: US$3750.00 + shipping
Description: Edition : 8th edition., original full calf boards rebacked expertly, spine with 6 compartments of raised bands, gilt lettering on two, all edges speckled red., With the rare leaf listing ?Books printed for and sold by Peter Parker.? 8th edition is the last 17th Century edition, first was c.1621.?The first psychiatric encyclopedia, citing nearly 500 medical authors, and also a literary tour de force? (Garrison-Morton 4918.1)?The first psychiatric encyclopedia, citing nearly 500 medical authors, and also a literary tour de force? (Garrison-Morton 4918.1), Size : Small folio, Engraved title page by Christoffel Le Bron, with illustrations representing the effects of Melancholy from Superstition, Solitude, Love and Hypochondriasis., References : Wing B6184. Jordan Smith 8., P. half-title, frontis, engraved title page, blank, dedication, blank, (2), 46, (6), 434, index (8), (2).
Seller: Alexandre Antique Prints, Maps & Books, Toronto, ON, Canada
Democritus Junior [Robert Burton]. The Anatomy of Melancholy. Peter Parker, London, 1676.
Price: US$3785.63 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A handsome copy of the eight edition of 'Democritus Junior's' study of melancholia, a fascinating and celebrated work of medicine and philosophy. The uncommon eighth edition of this medical work from Robert Burton, written under the name Democritus Junior, and first published in 1621. This was the final seventeenth century edition, the last to be printed until 1800.With an engraved title page, the scarce final publisher's advertisement leaf, and retaining the original half title, with 'the argument of the frontispiece' to its verso.A medical textbook on the subject of melancholia, Burton's work is written in a noticeably satirical tone in places, using melancholy as a lens through which all human emotion and thought may be scrutinize. Although presented as a medical study, it has been viewed as a work of literature as it is a scientific or philosophical text.Burton's digressive style, often verging on the stream of consciousness, informs and animates the text.ESTC reference no R10536.Collated, complete. With the register: [8] B-3R4Former owner's inscription to front pastedown. Rebound in half calf with marbled paper covered boards, with endpapers renewed. A touch of rubbing to joints at back strip head, otherwise externally excellent. Hinges starting, with board holding firm. Inscription to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages lightly age toned due to paper type, with the odd spot. Residue of loosely inserted leaves prominent to 2E2 and 2E3, obscuring a few lines of text, with lighter examples of this residue to 2K3 and 2K4. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom