Philosophy & Psychology

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.

EBBINGHAUS, HERMANN (1913).  Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology. Translated byHenry A. Ruger and Clara E. Busenius.  New York: Teacher's College: Columbia University. First Edition in English. Blue cloth, gilt spine lettering and on front cover, gilt crest on cover. viii + 123 pp., charts and tables. Binding very slightly worn, some pencil underlinings, Very Good.  $75.

Translation of the great work in experimental psychology, originally published in 1885. Ebbinghaus's sophisticated use of statistical analyses, used in the understanding of his heroic experiments in memorizing lists of nonsense syllables, remains readable and insightful. One of the founding texts of scientific psychology.

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 The Life, Unpublished Letters, and Philosophical Regimen of Anthony Earl of Shaftesbury, Author of the "Charackteristics."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 Following a sketch of his life, about half the present volume transcribes his previously unpublished "Philosophical Regimen" and the second half includes an extensive selected correspondence (with some letters from Locke).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.