- Browned/ foxed; (water)stains in lower margin and upper part; frontisp. frayed in margins. Vellum soiled.
= Vandewiele p.169-170: "Het boek is een praktische handleiding voor apothekers, een van de beste boeken uit die tijd, het kreeg een gunstig onthaal, zodat het verscheidene herdrukken kende (...)"; Wittop Koning p.74 (other editions); Daems/ Vandewiele p.62; Bibl. Walleriana 7382. Rare.
- Sl. foxed/ yellowed. Covers chafed.
Idem. Phrenology, or the Doctrine of the Mental Phenomena. Boston, Marsh, Capen and Lyon, 1835, 4th American ed., 2 vols., 342,(2); 212,4p., lithogr. frontisp., 14 plates, contemp. unif. cl.
- Sl. foxed. Vol. 1 frontcover loose.
- Trifle foxed. Binding sl. worn along edges.
Idem. A View of the Philosophical Principles of Phrenology. Ibid., iidem, n.d. (±1840), VIII,216p., contemp. giltlettered cl.
- Sl. foxed and yellowed.
AND 1 other: J. JENNINGS, An Inquiry concerning the Nature and Operations of the Human Mind, in which the Science of Phrenology, the Doctrine of Necessity, Punishment, and Education, are particularly considered (ibid., 1828, without binding).
- Lacks the portrait of the author. Occas. sl. yellowed/ (water)stained; 1 plate loose. Extremities sl. worn. A good set.
= Goedeke IV, 1, p.264; Schulte-Strathaus 77c; Kippenberg I, 581; BMN II, p.39. The charming decoration for this work, vignettes and larger and smaller plates and illustrations, was newly executed by J.R. Schellenberg, R. Brichtet, J. Hegi, J. Heidegger and others. The text was selected by Lavater himself from parts of his monumental first German edition (Leipsic, 1775), revised under his supervision and translated into Dutch by Joh. W. van der Haar.
- Title-p. outer margin cut short, sl. affecting the text; lvs. partly browned; one leaf w. closed marginal tear.
= Simoni P149 (1st ed.). Not in Nissen. Geerebaert CXXVII, IIa; Geerebaert CXXVII,b: "Exemplaren van den druk 1610 werden naderhand vermeerderd met een vierde boek". In 1617 Janssonius published a second edition with the first three books reset, followed by the fourth book identical to the fourth part of the first enlarged edition. Well printed in Gothic type and nicely illustrated, i.a. with a unicorn and the phoenix. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXV.
- Modern owner's entry on verso frontisp.; occas. sl. stained in margins, contents otherwise fine.
= Contains some nice celestial maps. Cf. Nissen, ZBI 3194ff.
= First publ. in 1918 in the Vierte Folge of Sammlung kleiner Schriften. Norman Library F95 ("the most elaborate and important of Freud's case histories, provided conclusive evidence of the existence of infantile sexuality").
Idem. Zur Einführung des Narzißmus. Ibid., idem, 1924, 1st separate ed., 35,(1),(4 advert.)p., orig. boards.
- Spine-ends taped; boards sl. yellowed. = Grinstein 81.
AND 2 others by the same, publ. by the same in the same year, both in orig. boards: Zur Geschichte der psychoanalytischen Bewegung and Zeitgemässes über Krieg und Tod.
- A few vols. sm. scratches on binding. Otherwise a good set.
= 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. Totem und Tabu. Ibid., idem, 1920, 2nd ed., V,(3),216p., orig. giltlettered hcl. Idem. Der Witz und seine Beziehung zum Unbewussten. Leipsic/ Vienna, F. Deuticke, 1912, 2nd ed., (4),207p., contemp. hcalf. Idem. Die Traumdeutung. Ibid., idem, 1911, 3rd enl. ed., IX,(1),414,(4)p., orig. cl. - AND 21 others, all by the same, all German language, all later editions, some in a poor/ mediocre condition.
- Owner's stamp on htitle ("Walter Linke"); frontwr. lacks sm. portion of lower corner.
= 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 (...)."
- Two owner's entries on title-p.
= 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."
- Spine sl. sunned. Contents very fine. = Grinstein 227.
- Paper sl. brittle.
= 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 printed, which took seven years to sell."
- Two small owner's entries in pen and ink on first free endpaper. A fine and clean copy.
= Norman, F27 ("Studies in Hysteria, which gives the first detailed account of the free-association method, is customarily regarded as the starting-point of psychoanalysis (...) 800 copies were printed"); Garrison-Morton 4978; Grinstein 214. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXV.
- Lacks one card. Cloth sl. waterst.
= In the psychological Szondi theory individuals are chracterized by their 'drives' (Triebe). This particular test consists in showing the examinee a series of facial photographs, displayed in six groups of eight each. The subject is asked to choose the two most appealing and the two most repulsive photos of each group. The choices will supposedly reveal the subject's satisfied and unsatisfied instinctive drive needs, and by doing so point out the subject's personality type.
- Binding worn; covers sl. warped and corners sl. dam.
- First part of first work lacks 1 plate and 2nd work lacks 1 plate; first part 3 plates soiled/ dam., partly repaired; all parts waterstained throughout; upper pastedown loose; upper hinge split. Binding soiled; 3.5 cm cut on vellum frontcover.
= Ad 1: Written by the Italian scientist Francesco Redi (1626-1697), here in Latin translation. The first part describing various exotic animals and plants, illustrated with interesting plates, showing i.a. the "Coccus Maldivensis", an iguana and an armadillo. The last two parts deal with the extensive research Redi did into snake venom. "The first methodical work on snake-poison. Redi demonstrated for the first time that, for the poison to produce its effect, it must be injected under the skin." (Garrison/ Morton on the Italian edition of 1664). Nissen, ZBI 3322; DSB XI, p.341f; Wellcome IV, p.488; BMN II, p.217; Rahir 3269; cf. Garrison/ Morton 2102. Ad 2: The second work is an early monograph on the Albatros. Wellcome III, p.426; not in Nissen, IVB.
- Bookblock sl. shaken; owner's entry on first free endpaper.
Idem. De tuimelaarrassen. Gouda, Uitgave N.V. Drukkerij v/h Kocht & Knuttel, 1935, (6),771p., 296 ills., later cl., large 8vo.
- Seller's firm stamps on title-p. and on frontwr.; frontwr. sl. frayed, creased and sl. soiled; backwr sl. creased.
= Extremely rare early trade catalogue for Baird televisions that were commercially produced. Baird developed his television from 1926 onwards.
AND 1 other (Dutch AO brochure on television, publ. 1951).