Search results for: 'the works'
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(DIX, Dorothea L.) KENNARD, Caroline A. Miss Dorothea L. Dix and her Life-Work.[No place] : 1888
Sole edition of a brief account of the woman who almost single-handedly created the first generation of mental asylums in America, written by the pioneering American scientist and women's rights campaigner Caroline A. Kennard.
"In her lifetime, Dorothea Dix brought about significant changes in the care of the mentally ill in North America and Europe.... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 139643
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FREUD, Sigmund. The Complete Psychological Works.London : 1975
A complete set of the Hogarth Press's Standard Edition. This is the most authoritative collection of the psychoanalytical works of Freud, edited by James Strachey, a former student of Freud's and member of the Bloomsbury Group Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 133926
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WOLFF, Charlotte. The Human Hand.New York : 1943
First US edition, first printing. This work provides an academic expansion of Wolff's 1936 work Studies in Hand Reading, in which she examined the possibility of "a close correlation between the detailed configuration of the hand and the outstanding traits forming the personality complex of the owner of the hands" (Schultz, p. 479). Wolff,... Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 131433
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WINSLOW, Lyttelton Forbes. The Insanity of Passion & CrimeLondon : 1913
First and only contemporary edition, genuinely uncommon. A remarkable series of case studies illustrated with photographs, many provided by Dr. Alphonse Bertillon of anthropometry fame, and Valentin Magnan of St. Anne's, Paris, and which Winslow explains, "... are sad, as illustrating fallen humanity; but they are instructive, as actually depicting... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 141925
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JAMES, William. The Varieties of Religious Experience. A Study in Human Nature.London, New York and Bombay : 1902
First edition, first impression, of one of James's masterworks, with a printed presentation slip "From the Author", from the library of the Oxford philosopher F. "Canning" S. Schiller (1864-1937), with his pencil annotations throughout.
James focuses on four central topics: the "experiential approach and the generic meaning of religion; the sick... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 136480
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FREUD, Sigmund. The Interpretation of Dreams.New York : 1913
First edition in English, first printing, US issue, an unusually nice copy. Originally published as Die Traumdeutung (Lepizig & Vienna, 1900 1899). This important translation, by the Austrian-born psychiatrist, and the first psychoanalyst to practice in the United States, Abraham Brill, was published simultaneously in London and New York and was Freud's... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 140894
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MACKAY, Charles. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.London : 1852
Second edition, and the first thoroughly illustrated one, following Bentley's 1841 first edition, which had only five plates over three volumes. This is an important early work on popular delusions of all types, considering the credulous enthusiasm of mankind for phenomena such as alchemy, witchcraft, relics, the Crusades, urban myths, as well as economic... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 140155
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MACKAY, Charles. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.London : 1852
Second edition, and the first thoroughly illustrated one, following Bentley's 1841 first edition, which had only five plates over three volumes. This is an important early work on popular delusions of all types, considering the credulous enthusiasm of mankind for phenomena such as alchemy, witchcraft, relics, the Crusades, urban myths, as well as economic... Learn More£400.00Stock Code: 140156
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SHALER, Sophia Penn. The Masters of Fate.New York : 1906
First edition, first printing. The work recounts the achievements of physically infirm individuals, accounting how, through force of will, they overcome their limitations and master their fate. The author aims, through example, to offer to disabled individuals models of willpower and achievement. The book serves as a strong defence of the value of the... Learn More£975.00Stock Code: 124446
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MACKAY, Charles. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.London : 1852
Second edition, and the first thoroughly illustrated one, following Bentley's 1841 first edition, which had only five plates over three volumes. This is an important early work on popular delusions of all types, considering the credulous enthusiasm of mankind for phenomena such as alchemy, witchcraft, relics, the Crusades, urban myths, as well as economic... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 139739
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CAMPION, George G. The Riddle of the Sphinx: An Essay.London : [1914]
First and sole edition of this very scarce and interesting essay on education, printed for private circulation in presumably very small numbers. Presentation copy from the author, inscribed on the half-title, "With the Author's Kind Regards, 22 Oct. 1914, G. G. C.". Campion (d. 1945) was consulting dental surgeon to the Manchester Dental Hospital. He... Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 141399
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BARING-GOULD, Sabine. The Book of Were-Wolves:London : 1865
First edition of this classic study, an important contribution to the literature of lycanthropy. Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924) was a Church of England clergyman, author, and folksong collector. His book, "essentially a work of synthesis, collating a broad range of material" (Coudray), is often cited as being a signal influence on Bram Stoker during... Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 138415
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[BURTON, Robert.] The Anatomy of Melancholy.London : 1652
Sixth edition, first published in 1621. Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy was "one of the most popular books of the seventeenth century. All the learning of the age as well as its humour - and its pedantry - are there. It has something in common with Brant's Ship of Fools, Erasmus's Praise of Folly, and More's Utopia,... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 135172
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WAIN, Louis. [Kaleidoscope cat.]c.1930s
A rare, superbly coloured "kaleidoscope" cat by the beloved "asylum artist" Louis Wain, presumed to have been created during his later years at Napsbury Asylum when his fluctuating psychological state was profoundly transforming his art. In this case, the image retains the realistic form of a mischievous cat but with the psychotic gleam and unnaturally... Learn More£18,500.00Stock Code: 125094
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JUNG, Carl G. Zur Psychologie und Pathologie sogenannter occulter Phänomene.Leipzig : 1902
First edition, first printing, presentation copy, inscribed by the author at the head of the front board, "Herrn Dr. Hoch mit den besten Grüssen, der Verfasser." This is the true first edition of Jung's doctoral dissertation, published in advance of the book version issued later the same year.
A superb association: the recipient Dr August Hoch (1868-1919)... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 128837
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BRADLEY, F. H. Collected Essays.Oxford : 1935
First editions, first impressions. Bradley was a fellow of Merton College, Oxford, and was the first British philosopher to be awarded the Order of Merit. The present volumes include The Presuppositions of Critical History (Bradley's earliest work), and two essays here published for the first time: The Treatment of Sexual Detail In Literature, and an... Learn More£225.00Stock Code: 140335
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PAVLOV, Ivan Petrovich. [In Cyrillic:] Lektsii o rabote glavnykh pishchevaritel'nykh zhelez.St Petersburg : 1897
First edition of Pavlov's celebrated Lectures on the work of the principal digestive glands, first delivered in St Petersburg the previous year, the greatest contribution to our understanding of the physiology of digestion and the work that led to his being awarded the Nobel prize for medicine in 1905. The book first describes and illustrates the artificial... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 133069
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FREUD, Sigmund. Die Traumdeutung.Leipzig & Vienna : 1900 [1899]
First edition of Freud's greatest single work, The Interpretation of Dreams, one of only 600 copies printed; very rare in the original wrappers. "Die Traumdeutung contains Freud's general theory of the psyche, which he had developed during the past decade. Using his refined understanding of the operation of the unconscious, Freud interpreted dreams... Learn More£50,000.00Stock Code: 131686
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WUNDT, Wilhelm. Lectures on Human and Animal Psychology.London : 1894
First edition in English, originally published in 1863 as Vorlesungen über die Menschen- und Thierseele. Wundt is remembered as the founder of experimental psychology (Garrison and Morton 1463 & 4976), and is particularly associated with structuralism, the first of the major schools of psychology to emerge. A competing school, functionalism, formed... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 110264
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STANFORD, Ray. What your aura tells me.New York : 1977
First edition, first printing. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. An unusual work of popular pseudo-psychiatry, by a "psychic" who claimed he could see the colours of emotion in people's auras, and can therefore ascertain their character. Ray Stanford was a self-professed psychic, founder of the Association for the Understanding of Man... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 104259
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FREUD, Sigmund. Der Witz und seine Beziehung zum Unbewussten.Leipzig and Wien : 1905
First edition, first impression, of Freud's work on jokes and their relationship to the unconscious. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 51016
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MEAD, Margaret. Coming of Age in Samoa.New York : 1928
First edition, first printing, of Mead's first and pioneering book which launched her career as an internationally recognised anthropologist. Based on Mead's immersive field work in American Samoa in 1925, Coming of Age in Samoa is one of the most widely read anthropology books ever published. Its unwavering influence during the following decades... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 118644
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SMILES, Samuel. Life and Labour.London : 1887
First edition. Samuel Smiles (1812-1904) had achieved wide fame with his 1859 work Self-Help, which promoted self-reliance and self-improvement, and has been seen as one of the defining texts of the Victorian era. "Believing that his essential message was only partially accepted and cautious about the effect of the extension of the franchise in 1867,... Learn More£75.00Stock Code: 124687
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LACAN, Jacques. De la psychose paranoïaque dans ses rapports avec la personnalité.Paris : 1932
First edition of Lacan's first published work. Lacan's ground-breaking thesis, particularly its central narrative of the story of the woman he named Aimée, immediately attracted the attention of the Surrealists. "To this thesis," Dali wrote in 1933, "we are indebted for giving us, for the first time, a global and homogeneous idea of the paranoid phenomenon,... Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 59379
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FREUD, Sigmund. Signed photograph.[London : 1938]
Freud reads the manuscript of Moses and Monotheism. A superb signed photograph of Freud at work taken by the Austrian-British psychoanalyst Wilhelm Hoffer (1897-1967), depicting Freud seated at his desk in London.
Freud had begun working on his Moses book in 1934 and partly published it in German in 1937. He arrived in London on 6 June 1938, announcing... Learn More£22,500.00Stock Code: 132013
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ESQUIROL, Jean-Étienne Dominique. Des maladies mentales considérées sous les rapports médical, hygiénique et médico-légal.Paris : 1838
First edition of "the first modern textbook of psychiatry" (Norman); this copy of especial interest as including, bound into the first volume, a fine original pencil drawing (dated 1836) of a psychiatric patient, ascribed by a later hand to the engraver Ambroise Tardieu, along with a suite of 19 proof engravings. Tardieu appears to have been responsible... Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 128843
