Maurice HEINE.

Collection of Confessions and psycho-sexual observations drawn from the medical literature and presented with a foreword. Paris, Éditions Jean Crès, 1936. In-8, half magenta leather, spine decorated with cold caissons, untrimmed, gilt head, covers and spine kept (period binding). First edition. In an appendix to his biography of the Marquis de Sade, Gilbert Lely has devoted pages of praise to the pioneering work of Maurice Heine, noting at the end: "Among his works where the name of the Marquis does not appear in the title, the most important one remains, by its content, directly associated with it: we mean the Recueil de confessions et observations psycho-sexuelles tirées de la littérature médicale. In a foreword whose elegant precision can only be compared to Fontenelle's Éloges scientifiques, Maurice Heine retraces the different theories to which sexual psychopathology has given rise, from Krafft-Ebing to Havelock Ellis. He ends with his own psychobiological conception of paresthesias, illustrating it with an ingenious figure, inspired either by the tree of dermatoses of the physician Alibert, or by a passage of the letter XIX of Aline et Valcour" (Vie du marquis de Sade, 1989, pp. 685-686). Copy of the library of Paul Eluard, with bookplate, in which an envelope with the address of Dr. Bonafé [sic], in the hand of Jean Paulhan, cancelled in 1943, has been inserted.