Philosophy & Psychology

CARNAP, RUDOLF.  Abriss der Logistik, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Relationstheorie und ihrer Anwendungen. [Outline of Logistics, with Special Reference to the Theory of Relations and their Applications] Vienna: Julius Springer, 1929. In the series Schriften zur wissenschaftlichen Weltauffassung, Band 2., edited by Moritz Schlick and Philipp Frank. 8½" x 5½", vi + 114 pp., illustrated. Bound in sturdy blue cloth (slightly rubbed, a bit loose), owners name and name stamp on inside covers, slight yellowing to the pages, a small damp stain (less than 1", not touching any text) affecting the lower gutter of about 50 pages, overall a Good copy. First Edition.  $125.

Carnap (1891-1970) was a major proponent of logical positivism and a member of the original Vienna Circle. This work, the first part of which an early review (by Paul Weiss) described as a kind of abbreviated version of Russell & Whitehead's Principia Mathematica, is followed by a second part in which Carnap discussed the application to the "logistics" of various branches of mathematics and science. An early work by the great logician and philosopher of science!

DELBOEUF, J..  La Matière Brute et la Matière Vivante; Étude sur l'Origine de la Vie et de la Mort. Paris: Félix Alcan, 1887. First Edition. 184 pp. + 16 pp. [adverts, dated Aout, 1886]. 7" x 4½". Black cloth, handwritten spine label, the binding tight (save a few loosening leaves), the paper age-yellowed and with some occasional pencil margin lining, overall a Good copy.  $50.

Joseph Delboeuf (1831-1896), Belgian psychologist and philosopher, was an important contributor to hypnosis and hypnotherapy, and influenced the early works of Freud on dreams and on the importance of "reliving" memories in the treatment of hysteria. The book is quite scarce, only one copy (ex-lib) on the internet. Not in Crabtree.

RAND, BENJAMIN. The Life, Unpublished Letters, and Philosophical Regimen of Anthony Earl of Shaftesbury, Author of the "Charackteristics." London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1900. First Edition. 9" x 6", frontis., xxxi, 535 pp. Blue cloth (darkened, wear to spine ends, a short tear at top of spine), name on obverse of half-title, name on title page, brown offsetting on pp. xi - xii, the tissue guard of the frontispiece very browned, some age-yellowing of the text, overall Good copy.  $50.

Best known as the patron of John Locke, Shaftesbury (1621-1683), author of the "Characteristicks," was one of the founders of the Whig party. Following a sketch of his life, about half the present volume transcribes his previously unpublished "Philosophical Regimen" and the second half includes an extensive selected correspondence (with some letters from Locke). The lovely engraved frontispiece is based on the Closterman portrait.

An uncommon book, only two copies on the net, both ex-library..