LÉLUT, Louis Francisque. L'amulette de Pascal pour servir à - Lot 411

LÉLUT, Louis Francisque. L'amulette de Pascal pour servir à l'histoire des hallucinations. Published in Paris by Baillière in 1846. In octavo / In-8 format. Half tan cloth. Smooth spine with gilt title and author. Speckled edges. XVI-372 pages, one handwritten facsimile plate off-text. Spine browned, covers slightly rubbed, corners bare. Scattered foxing, especially in the margins. First edition, with a fold-out plate presenting the facsimile of the writing found in Pascal's pourpoint after his death. The famous psychiatrist, a pupil of Ferrus, asserts in this work that Blaise Pascal was the victim of hallucinations, "the irrefragable character of insanity". Good copy, bright interior.