Lot N. 174
L'onanismo ovvero dissertazione Sopra le Malattie cagionate dalle Polluzioni volontarie
del Signor Tissot [...] Terza edizione, In Venezia: Nella Stamperia Graziosi a S. Apollinare, 1785. In-8° (205x135 mm). 188 p. Signature: A-M8. Cards A1-2, M7-8 are blank. Maps M4v and M5r both contain a Printing License dated 1767 and 1785 respectively; papers M5v and M6 contain: Books published by the Graziosi printing house in S. Apollinare. Brand on the title page (snake biting its own tail).
Non-coeval binding in half leather and cardboard with title on paper tag on the spine. Minor defects. Interior with light foxing, rare marginal tears and slight damp spots
Main work by the Swiss doctor Simon André Tissot (1728-1797), professor in Lausanne and Pavia, which became a European best-seller in the second half of the eighteenth century, the first true scientific approach dedicated to the practice of masturbation analyzed as a symbolic vice of the sexual disorders of the class French average