Lot 56: CHARCOT, JEAN-MARTIN. 1825-1893; and PAUL RICHER. 1849-1933. Les démoniaques dans l' art. Paris: Adrian Delahaye & Emile Lecrosnier, 1887.

CHARCOT, JEAN-MARTIN. 1825-1893; and PAUL RICHER. 1849-1933.
Les démoniaques dans l' art. Paris: Adrian Delahaye & Emile Lecrosnier, 1887. 4to. 67 illustrations in the text. Publisher's wrappers. Spotting to wrappers, book label applied to inside front wrapper, thumbed.FIRST EDITION of a rare reference work by French physician Charcot, working with anatomist and artist Richer to analyze the depiction of "hysterical" individuals in art, in order to determine which of them had been created from pure imagination and which depicted accurate representations of neurological or mental illness. Charcot, a founder of modern neurology, was among Freud's teachers. Garrison-Morton 6605.