a landmark in modern psychology
JAMES, William.
The Principles of Psychology. In two volumes.
New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1890.
'James's textbook of psychology represents one of the first attempts to treat psychology as a natural science in which the mind is conceived of as being subject to both Darwinian evolutionary principles and to acts of will' (Hook & Norman, The Norman Library of Science & Medicine 1153).
'The book presents, in masterly language, a wealth of naturalistic observation about human behaviour and conscious experience... It makes clear that psychology concerns, and is of concern to, the lives of individual people. It is exploratory, not consistently scientific in spirit, and arrives at no coherent theory of psychology. However, it widens horizons and raises issues that have, in the twentieth century, been approached scientifically. It raises many issues that still challenge scientific enquiry' (Oxford Companion to the Mind, as cited in Hook & Norman).
First edition, first printing; 2 vols, 8vo; publisher's ad facing the title of each volume, 8-page publisher's ads at rear of vol. II, inscriptions in ink by previous owners to preliminary blanks, illustrated bookplate to preliminary blank of vol. I, numerous in-text illustrations, pencil annotations to margins; publisher's olive green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, dark brown endpapers, boards slightly loose, head and foot of spines rubbed and a little frayed, corners bumped and frayed, boards lightly marked, crease to spine of vol. I, very good condition.
Hook & Norman, The Norman Library of Science & Medicine 1153; Horblitt, 100 Books Famous in Science 100b.
Stock code 123513
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The Principles of Psychology.
[Manhattan Project]. Manhattan Engineer District.
The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki [and] Photographs of the Atomic Bombings
[June 29, 1946].
First edition, the complete set with both text and photo volumes, of this important, early scientific report on the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by representatives f the Manhattan Project.
£5,700.00
BELL, Charles.
A Series of Engravings, Explaining the Course of the Nerves.
1803.
First edition of this early work by the prominent surgeon and anatomical illustrator Charles Bell, A Series of Engravings, Explaining the Course of the Nerves, published in 1803.
£1,250.00
SNAPE, Andrew.
The Anatomy of an Horse.
1683.
The first edition of one of the earliest works on horse anatomy in the English language, The Anatomy of an Horse by Andrew Snape, published in 1683
£7,500.00
