2081 - 2468 NATURAL HISTORY, MEDICINE, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, TRANSPORT etc.
- Sl. foxed; both vols. w. library ticket on upper pastedowns; annot. in red pencil on both first free endpapers. Small paper tickets mounted on frontcovers.
= Alibert (1766-1837) was revered as the leading dermatologist of his generation. He was physician to Louis XVIII and famous across Europe for this teaching. This work, one of his few forays outside dermatology, concerns the psychology of emotions and gives historical and contemporary examples. Rare edition.
= "As early as 1884 Bernheim stated his opposition to Charcot's concepts regarding hypnosis. He criticized the Parisian idea of hypnosis in three stages, and was the first to have the courage to say that it was a "cultural hypnosis: entirely expliable by suggestion." Freud visited Bergheim and subsequently translated the present work in German in 1888. DSB II, p.35f.
= First publ. in 1918 in the Vierte Folge of Sammlung kleiner Schriften. Grinstein 113; Norman Library F95: "the most elaborate and important of Freud's case histories, provided conclusive evidence of the existence of infantile sexuality".
= Grinstein 117; Norman Library F126.
Idem. Zeitgemäßes über Krieg und Tod. Ibid., idem, 1924, 3rd ed., 34,(1),4(publisher's adv.)p., contemp. hcl.
= Grinstein 259, Norman Library F118.
BOUND WITH: 2 others by the same: Jenseits des Lustprinzips (ibid., 1923, 3rd ed. Grinstein 128) and Drei Abhandlungen zur Sexualtheorie (Leipsic and Vienna, 1925, 6th ed. Grinstein 79).
- Owner's entry on first free endpaper in pen and ink. Backstrip worn.
= Grinstein 121; Meyer-Palmedo/ Fichtner 1923b; Norman Library F105: "Freud's last major contribution to psychoanalytic theory. The ego and the id offered a new picture of the structure of the mind, introducing the threefold division of ego, superego and id (...)."
- Owner's entry on htitle and frontwrapper in pen and ink.
= Grinstein 121; Meyer-Palmedo/ Fichtner 1923b; Norman Library F105: "Freud's last major contribution to psychoanalytic theory. The ego and the id offered a new picture of the structure of the mind, introducing the threefold division of ego, superego and id (...)."
Idem. Kleine Beiträge zur Traumlehre. Ibid., idem, 1925, 1st ed., 76,(1),(2 advert.)p., orig. wr.
- Some foxing throughout. Dustwr. sl. defective.
= Rarely found in the original dustwr. Grinstein 144; Norman Library F143: "Freud's last work was an anthropological and psychoanalytical study of the rise of Judaism, which he rooted in the monotheistic worship of the Egyptian sungod Aten; and an examination of the significance of religion in general."
- Sl. waterstained in upper and lower inner blank margin. Backstrip worn.
= Grinstein 147; Norman Library F100: "In his analysis of group psychology, Freud examined the nature of the bonds that unite groups, which he traced back to the earliest example of group-formation, the family. He stressed the importance of the part played by the group leader, and stated that the ideal put forth by this leader must correspond with the ego ideal, or superego, of the group members."
- Dustwr. occas. sl. rubbed, otherwise a very fine set.
= Norman Library F129.
- Bookblock broken but holding on lining. Covers sl. discoloured.
= Grinstein 221; Norman Library F85: "Freud's Totem and taboo was originally published as four essays in the psychiatric journal Imago, under the general title Resemblances between the psychic lives of savages and neurotics; the four essays were titled "The horror of incest," "Taboo and emotional ambivalence," "Animism, magic and the omnipotence of thoughts," and "The return of totemism in childhood." This important work represents Freud's first attempt to analyze some of the unsolved problems of social psychology from a psychoanalytic standpoint; in the final essay, he concluded that "the beginnings of religion, morality, social life and art [meet] in the Oedipus complex."
- Bookplate on upper pastedown; sm. stamp on title. Lower joint splitting.
= Grinstein 233; Norman Libr. II, F133: "An exposition of the two opposing forces of civilization: Eros (...) and the death instinct (...)".
Idem. Die Zukunft einer Illusion. Leipsic etc., IPV, 1927, 1st ed., 91,(3 advert.)p., orig. cl. (unif. w. the preceding).
- Bookplate on first free endpaper. Cloth worn.
= Grinstein 260; Norman Libr. II, F130: "A study of the nature and future of religious beliefs."
AND 2 other vols. by SIGMUND and ANNA FREUD.
= Cf. Grinstein 224; Norman Library F91: "The lectures were originally published in three parts, on parapraxes (slips of the tongue etc.), dreams, and the general theory of neurosis respectively; a one-volume edition appeared in 1917".
- Backstrip worn/ sunned.
= Grinstein 256; Norman Library F54: "Freud described the psychological processes and techniques of jokes, which he likened to the processes and techniques of dream-work; discusses the purpose of jokes, distinguishing between harmless and tendentious ones; and established the psychogenesis of jokes in the young child's pleasure in playing with words as if they were objects. 1,050 copies of the first edition were printes, which took seven years to sell."
- Bookplate on upper pastedown. Covers sl. discol.
= Grinstein 260; Norman Libr. II, F130: "A study of the nature and future of religious beliefs."
Idem. Das Unbehagen in der Kultur. Vienna, IPV, 1930, 1st ed., 136p., orig. cl.
- Bookplate on first free endpaper. Spine sl. discol.
= Grinstein 233; Norman Libr. II, F133: "An exposition of the two opposing forces of civilization: Eros (...) and the death instinct (...)".
AND 1 other: E. JONES, Zur Psychoanalyse der christlichen Religion (Leipsic etc., 1928, orig. cl.).
- Owner's entry in pen and ink on title. = Grinstein 227; Norman Library F38.
- Binding sl. worn/ rubbed. Contents fine.
= First Dutch translation after the 5th English (1755) edition of Self-knowledge. A treatise, shewing the nature and benefit of that important science, and the way to attain it. Rare, no copies traced in NCC.
- Vol. 1 lower joint splitting at top. Both vols. covers sl. rubbed. Good copy.
= Miscellaneous collection of short works (i.a. philosophical, mathematical and historical), first publ. in 1720.
- Catalog clipping tipped onto first free endpaper; occas. trifle soiled. Vellum sl. soiled/ sl. warped.
= Rare complete set. Contains articles by various leading scientists at the time.