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PRESSAVIN, Nouveau traité des vapeurs, 1771

Photo PRESSAVIN, Jean Baptiste. 

PRESSAVIN, Jean Baptiste. 

Nouveau traité des vapeurs, ou traité des maladies des nerfs. 

Lyon, V. Reguilliay, 1771.

12mo (162x93 mm), xcvi-352-(4) pages.  binding : Contemporary brown full morocco, covers gilded. All edges gilded. Leather slightly rubbed on corners. Little in the margins of two leaves. 

Photo PRESSAVIN, Jean Baptiste. 

Second edition.
The "vapors" mental disorder popularized by Pierre Pomme, foreshadows what will be discussed under the term Hysteria in the 19th century.

"Contrary to Pomme, Pressavin does not condemn passions without restriction [...] vapors would correspond to a dysfunction of the relational system which binds living beings to the outside world; vapors can just as easily be passionate, in the grip of an overexcited sensitivity , that an indifferent, vegetating in a state of torpor. " Paul Hoffmann, "The Woman in the Thought of Lights", Slatkine, 1995

Beautiful copy in contemporary morocco.

Price : 600 €

Photo PRESSAVIN, Jean Baptiste. 
Photo PRESSAVIN, Jean Baptiste. 
Photo PRESSAVIN, Jean Baptiste. 
Photo PRESSAVIN, Jean Baptiste. 
Photo PRESSAVIN, Jean Baptiste. 
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