Psychology & The Occult from Reginald C. Williams Rare Books

8vo, pp xiii, [3], 192, uncut in original blue boards, neatly respined in paper with window cut original label, minor foxing at end, a little worn at corners, but a sound very good copy, FIRST EDITION; John Haslam was medical officer at the Rethlem Hospital in London, and, based on earlier work, in 1809 published his highly influential work 'Observations… Read more about this item

8vo. [viii], 180 pp. 16 full-page lithographed plates, 5 of which are heightened in gilt. Publisher's contemporary patterned marbled paper boards. Edges lightly rubbed, Some light foxing, but overall a very good copy with the plates clean and bright. Now housed in a custom slipcase. First edition, a curious attempt to devise a system of anthropology and psychology based exclusively on… Read more about this item

Octavo. iv (publisher ads), 337, [1 (blank)], [2 (ads)], 8 (ads) pp. First American edition. Bound in contemporary speckled calf with brown morocco title label on the spine. Spine ends are a trifled rubbed; front cover has been discreetly and professionally reattached; rear joint shows some separation to the leather, but it remains solid; corners are a bit frayed. Irregular… Read more about this item

FIRST EDITION. 129pp., 4 unnumbered leaves of illustrated plates. Publisher's original pictorial cloth binding sturdy, spine and edges distinctly age-toned; outer and inner hinges strong; leaves a little shaken between pages 64 and 65 else contents clean and attractive, title-page excellent. An excellent copy that's now Mylar protected and housed in a custom slipcase. Dewey's first published work of length… Read more about this item

Grundzuge der physiologischen Psychologie. 8vo. xii, 870, [2, errata]pp. Text illustrations. 232 x 158 mm. Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, 1874. Publisher s original brown cloth. Some browning throughout the text, mild wear at the spine ends and the front hinge starting to crack but holding firm. A nice copy and notoriously scarce in the publisher s original cloth. Housed in a… Read more about this item

8vo, two volumes. Bound in recent stained half calf with marbled boards and marbled sides and edges, red morocco titles to spines and raised bands. FIRST EDITION of this great work Written by James Mill, the father of John Stuart Mill, Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind theorizes that the human mind is a store of associations of… Read more about this item

Small 12mo. [12], 227, [1]p. Full contemporary marbled calf with spine adorned with golden fillets and florets, top board tender with a small loss of leather at the head. Minor foxing to title page, untrimmed copy with wide margins. A very good copy which seldom surfaces in a contemporary binding. Housed in a cloth clamshell slipcase with chemise. A refutation… Read more about this item

First British edition. Near fine in the very scarce seldom seen dust jacket. Ownership signature on front end page of (presumably) Arie de Jong (1865-1957) Dutch enthusiast and reformer of the constructed language Volapük by Johann Martin Schleyer, with whose help the Volapük movement gained new strength in the Netherlands. Else clean, bright, and unmarked with a bit of foxing… Read more about this item

FOURTH EDITION 1855 edited and enlarged by Edwin Norris. 2 volumes, lacks folio of Six ethnographical maps, often missing, 8vo, approximately 240 x 140 mm, 9½ x 5¾ inches, 57 original hand colored plates, mostly aquatints and a few lithographs, 5 plates are not colored making a total of 62 plates, Woodcuts in the text, original publisher's pictorial wine colored… Read more about this item

Hardcover. Small octavo. 139pp. plus half-title. Small stamp to rear fly-leaf, "F.S.L Dupl." Half-vellum with marbled boards and matching endpapers; some foxing. An uncut copy. The author, John Ferriar (1761-1815), was a Scottish physician and author whose researches into typhoid and other diseases and leadership of the Manchester Infirmary made their mark in British medical history. His work, "An Essay… Read more about this item

First edition copy. London: Baldwin, Cradock & Joy, 1817. 1st Edition. viii+312pp. + 4 copper plates. Contemporary 1/2 calf with marbled boards and gilt spine. Corners repaired, rebacked (some time ago) with original spine laid-down, light browning and foxing, hinges cracked, A very good copy. First edition of Spurzheim s influential work on insanity, advocating for better understanding and treatment… Read more about this item

Slim octavo, original navy cloth, original dust jacket (now brodart protected). First English edition and first authorized translation in English of Freud s essays on infantile sexuality and human psychosexual development. Three Essays is second only to the Interpretation of Dreams in its importance to Freudian theory. First published in German in 1905; the first American edition was published in… Read more about this item

FIRST EDITION. Octavo, 270 pp., [1] leaf (ads) attractive contemporary paneled calf. No spine label. Half-title is present and the text is very fresh for its age with white pages. The rear hinge is a little weak and shaken, but an excellent contemporary copy usually found rebound or in later bindings. Housed and chemised in a quarter morocco slipcase with… Read more about this item

FIRST EDITION of one of the most influential early books on what was to become the discipline of psychiatry, probably the most widely read and influential English language book on the subject in the 18th century. George Cheyne (1671-1743) was a scientist, mathematician and physician with a wide range of interests. He has particular interest in nervous diseases and this… Read more about this item