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Report on Insanity & Idiocy in Massachusetts, by the Commission on Lunacy, under Resolve of the Legislature of 1854. Boston: William White, Printer to the State, 1855. Octavo, very good in publisher's blind-stamped cloth; [together with]: Second Annual Report of the Metropolitan Board of Heath of the State of New York, 1867, New York: Union Printing House, 1869, octavo, half leather; Second Annual Report of the State Board of Health, Lunacy, and Charity of Massachusetts, 1880, Supplement Containing the Report and Papers on Public Health, Boston: Rand, Avery, & Co., 1881; octavo, full cloth; [and] Sixth Annual Report of the State Board of Health, Lunacy, and Charity of Massachusetts, Supplement Containing the Report and Papers on Public Health, Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Co., 1885, octavo, contemporary publisher's cloth. (4)
Estimate $300-400
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Wright & Potter Printing Co., William White, Avery & Co.John Dorfman
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