Iconographie photographique de la Salpétrière. Service de M. Charcot

Paris: Bureaux du Progrès Médical, V Adrien Delahaye & Gie [and others], 1876. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 1876-1880. Three parts in three volumes. 4to (227 x 165 mm). Each volume with half-title and title (printed in red and black) with collotype vignette of the Salpêtrière in Paris; woodcut text illustrations. With a total of 5 engraved plates and 115 collotype plates after Paul Regnard with printed captions (complete). Contemporary uniform half brown morocco and marbled paper over boards, spines with lettered and tooled in gilt, marbled endpapers (little rubbing to extremities, corners bumped). Light even age-toning of text, occasional very minor spotting or finger-soiling. Provenance: Monogramed G.M.C. at foots of spine, vol. III with faint ink stamp ("Guillermo Mir") to title; from a Spanish private collection. A fine set, quite crisp and clean throughout.

Vol. I: 1876-1877. [4], iv, 166, [2] pp. 35 collotype and 5 engraved plates numbered I-XL. First 3 plates with light water stain to lower corner, few plates with light foxing.
Vol. II: 1878. [6], ii, 232, [2] pp. Errara printed on final leaf verso, 40 collotype plates numbered I to XXXIX (including plate VI-bis). 3 plates misbound, light waterstain to plate 39.
Vol. III: 1879-1880. [4], 259 [1], [4] pp. Errara leaf and final blank; woodcut text illustrations and 40 collotype plates numbered I to XL. Light foxing of text. First 8 plates with light waterstain to lower corner. ----

RARE FIRST EDITION, VOLUME I A REISSUE WITH COLLOTYPE PLATES INSTEAD OF ALBUMEN PRINTS, of this photographic atlas devoted to cases of hysteria and epilepsy, accompanied by case histories. The third volume includes discussions of hypnotism, somnambulism and magnetism. Bourneville was Charcot's assistant at the Salpetriere from 1870 to 1879. In 1862 Charcot became physician to the hospital of the Salpêtrière, with which his name will always be associated. Here, from small beginnings, he created the greatest neurological clinic of modern times, which was followed by enthusiastic students from all parts of the world. This collection of numerous cases of epilepsy, &c., is important on account of the brilliant photos taken at different stages of the attacks by two of the most gifted of Charcot's pupils.
"The Iconographie photographique de la Salpêtrière (1876-80) is a landmark publication in medical photography. This collection of texts and photographs represents the female patients of Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot at the Salpêtrière hospital and asylum during the years of his tenure as director. The patients, diagnosed primarily with hysteria or epilepsy, were treated at the asylum even as they acted as experimental subjects for Charcot's development of the hysteria diagnosis. This collection represents a transformative moment in the history of the diagnosis, treatment, and representation of mental illness" (Yale University, 2022 online resources).
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