Report on Insanity and Idiocy in Massachusetts by the Commission on Lunacy Under Resolve of the Legislature of 1854. PRESENTATION COPY FROM EDWARD JARVIS.

[JARVIS, Edward]

Published by Boston: William White, 1855., 1855

Condition: Very Good Hardcover

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x, 1 leaf, 9-213, 15 pp. Original cloth. Ink stamp of Royal Society of Edinburgh on front pastedown and on title page (see photos). Near Fine. First Edition. PRESENTATION COPY FROM EDWARD JARVIS: "Royal Society Edinburgh Scotland/ from Edward Jarvis." I do not know if the inscription is in Jarvis's hand. Reviewing Jarvis's Report in 1856, Isaac Ray wrote: "Never, perhaps, has a statistical inquiry been pursued with such ample provisions against error and imperfection, or with results more worthy of reliance. In all those respects which render such a work of value,-accuracy, completeness, and pertinence,-we doubt if it has been surpassed." For Edward Jarvis, see Kaufman, Dictionary of American Medical Biography I: 392. Seller Inventory # 7629

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Title: Report on Insanity and Idiocy in ...

Publisher: Boston: William White, 1855.

Publication Date: 1855

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

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