Category: Psychology

Image for De l'Identification par les Signalements Anthropometriques. Conference faite le 22 novembre 1885 au Congres Penitatiiaire de Rome [On Identification by Anthropometric Characteristics. Conference on November 22, 1885, at the Penitentiary Congress of Rome]

De l'Identification par les Signalements Anthropometriques. Conference faite le 22 novembre 1885 au Congres Penitatiiaire de Rome [On Identification by Anthropometric Characteristics. Conference on November 22, 1885, at the Penitentiary Congress of Rome]

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Paris, G. Masson; Archives de l'Anthropologie Criminelle et des Sciences Penales : 1886

Seller ID: 925

1886 SCARCE PAPER ON BIOMETRICS IN CRIMINOLOGY BY LEGENDARY FRENCH POLICE OFFICER ALPHONSE BERTILLON, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. 9 3/4 inches tall extract from the first volume of Archives de l'Anthropologie Criminelle bound in recent gray paper-covered boards, inscribed and signed on title page, "a Monsieur Pont/ Membre de l'Academie des sciences morales et polque/ Hommage de l'auteur/A Bertillon," 31 pages, 1 page summary of first issues of the journal with list of principal works of Mr. Alphonse Bertillon. Very good in recent fine binding. Text in French. ALPHONSE BERTILLON (1853 -...
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Supplemental Studies for the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders: Racial Attitudes in Fifteen American Cities

By: Campbell, Angus and Schuman, Howard

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Washington, D.C., U.S. Government Printing Office : 1968

Seller ID: 289

LANDMARK STUDY OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS RIOTS OF 1968--PERSONAL COPY OF NOTED SOCIOLOGIST PETER H. ROSSI. SUPPLEMENTAL STUDIES for the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders: Racial Attitudes in Fifteen American Cities, in original black cloth binding with gilt title on cover and spine, viii, 248 pages, COPY OF PETER H. ROSSI., his gilt name on cover, fine. FOREWORD TO SUPPLEMENTAL STUDIES: On March 1, 1968, the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders issued its report. In it we said that three supplemental studies were being conducted under the Commission's auspices. The text of ...
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A Commentary of Medical and Moral Life; or Mind and the Emotions, considered in relation to Health, Disease, and Religion

By: Cooke, William

Price: $45.00

Publisher: London, Longman, Brown, & Co. : 1852

Seller ID: 969

1852 SCARCE MONOGRAPH ON THE MIND-BODY CONNECTION, PHYSIOLOGY OF EMOTIONS, AND IMPORTANCE OF RELIGION IN MEDICINE. 8 inches tall hardcover, recent red buckram binding, gilt title to spine, xvi, 304 pp; covers and endpapers as new, title page and table of contents with chipped edges, remainder of text pages age-toned, unmarked, good+. CONTENTS include: Diversity of natural constitution in mind and body; Value of religion to medical men; Sketch of the construction and functions of the human body, with the evidences of design; Characteristics of emotions: sanguineous, choleric, phelgmatic, melanc...
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Image for Mark Anniversary Volume to Edward Laurens Mark, Hersey Professor of Anatomy and Director of the Zoological Laboratory at Harvard University in Celebration of Twenty-five Years of Successful Work for the Advancement of Zoology from his former Students 1877-1902

Mark Anniversary Volume to Edward Laurens Mark, Hersey Professor of Anatomy and Director of the Zoological Laboratory at Harvard University in Celebration of Twenty-five Years of Successful Work for the Advancement of Zoology from his former Students 1877-1902

By: Goto, S., Pratt, H.S., Locy, W.A., Reighard, J., Kofoid, C.A., Davenport, C.B., Davenport, G.C., Bancroft, F.W., Eigenmann, C.H., Johnson, H.P., Linville, H.R., Ritter, W.E., Strong, R.M., Eastman, C.R., Neal, H.V., Jennings, H.S., Floyd, R., Yerkes, R.M

Price: $200.00

Publisher: New York, Henry Holt and Co. : 1903

Seller ID: 906

1903 SCARCE FESTSCHRIFT WITH 25 ORIGINAL PAPERS ILLUSTRATED WITH PLATES IN HONOR OF EDWARD LAURENS MARK, DIRECTOR OF HARVARD'S ZOOLOLOGICAL LABORATORY. 12 inches tall, 2 1/2 inches thick hardcover, red cloth binding, gilt title to spine, institutional library bookplate to front paste-down, frontis photogravure portrait of Mark with tissue guard, perforated library stamp to title page, xiii, 513 pp, 36 plates,some in color. Covers soiled, small paper library label bottom of spine, binding tight, text and plates unmarked, very good. Large format festschrift in honor of Edward Laurens Mark (1847 ...
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The Bell Curve. Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life

By: Herrnstein, Richard J. and Murray, Charles

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, The Free Press : 1994

Seller ID: 858

CONTROVERSIAL STUDY BY PSYCHOLOGIST AND SOCIAL SCIENTIST PROPOSES THAT CORRELATION OF SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS WITH INTELLIGENCE JUSTIFIES EUGENIC MEASURES. 1/2 inches tall hardcover, black paper covered boards, gray cloth spine with gilt title, xxvi, 845 pp, illustrations; near fine in very good dust jacket. Cited by Engs in The Eugenics Movement (2005): Written by Harvard psychologist RICHARD J. HERRNSTEIN (1930-1994) and social scientist CHARLES MURRAY (b. 1943), The Bell Curve proposes that a strong correlation exists between intelligence and socioeconomic achievement, as well as between intel...
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Human Figure Drewings of Mildly Handicapped Students. Learning Disabled, Mildly Mentally Retarded, Emotionally Disturbed, and Speech/Language Impaired

By: Jones, Carroll J.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Springfield, Charles C. Thomas : 1992

Seller ID: 426

SCARCE ILLUSTRATED MONOGRAPH ON INTERPRETATION OF HANDICAPPED CHILDEN'S HUMAN FIGURE DRAWINGS. 10 1/4 inches tall hardcover, red cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, 114 pages, 70 black & white illustrations. Covers clean and bright, text unmarked. Institutional library handstamp to edges, front and rear endpapers; library pocket rear endpaper. Very good-. FOREWORD: This is an unusual book. Not many authors have been successful in the attempt to compile children's drawings of people and present them in a way that has some psychological or educational use. .... Juxtaposed to normal dev...
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Assimilative Memory or How to Attend and Never Forget

By: Loisette, A. [aka Marcus Dwight Larrowe]

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Funk & Wagnalls Co. : 1896

Seller ID: 921

1896 FIRST EDITION GUIDE TO IMPROVING MEMORY BY CHARLATAN WHO DUPED MARK TWAIN. 7 1/4 inches tall hardcover, pebbled green binding, gilt author's name to cover, frontis portrait of author with tissue guard, 170 pp, publisher's advertisements. Fine in custom archival mylar cover. LOISETTE AND MARK TWAIN (Australian Mensa Magazine, TableAus, 2014): "In 1883, Samuel Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, began work on a game designed to teach his children to remember the names of the English monarchs. The game involved using the garden path around his home to spatially represent the relative reigns...
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The Reproductive Behaviour of the Ten-Spined Stickleback

By: Morris, Desmond

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Leiden, E. J. Brill : 1958

Seller ID: 1066

1958 FIRST PUBLICATION BY NOTED SOCIOBIOLOGIST DESMOND MORRIS--HIS DOCTORAL THESIS FROM OXFORD UNIVERSITY. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, brown paper-covered boards, black pebbled cloth spine with gilt title, pp vi, 154, 50 illustrations in text, cover edges and corners worn, residual abrasions from removal of library stickers from bottom spine, back, and front paste-down; previous owner signature top of front paste-down, handstamp of Smithsonian Libraries top of table of contents and handstamp withdrawn Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Binding tight, browning to first and last pages, text unm...
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Image for La Mort, les Maladies, l'Intelligence, l'Heredite, Indiquees immediatement par l'analyse des empreintes des mains [Death, Diseases, Intelligence, Heredity, indicated immediately by analysis of handprints]

La Mort, les Maladies, l'Intelligence, l'Heredite, Indiquees immediatement par l'analyse des empreintes des mains [Death, Diseases, Intelligence, Heredity, indicated immediately by analysis of handprints]

By: Muchery, Georges

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Paris, Editions du Chariot : 1928

Seller ID: 881

1928 TWO-VOLUME MONOGRAPH ON PALMISTRY, ILLUSTRATED WITH OVER 100 LITHOGRAPHS OF PALM PRINTS AND THEIR INTERPRETATION OF DISEASE, INTELLIGENCE, AND HEREDITY. Two volumes, 10 inches tall, printed paper covers in glassine dustjackets, Vol. I Text, owner signature, mars 1942, to front flyleaf, 254 pp, illustrations in text; Vol. II, corner of front flyleaf and half-title excised, preserving mars 1942, 112 lithographic plates of handprints. Covers clean, bindings tight, pages clean and unmarked, plates bright and clean, very good. TEXT IN FRENCH. GEORGES MUCHERY (1892 - 1981) was an astrologer and...
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Crime Album Stories: Paris 1886 - 1902

By: Parry, Eugenia

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Zurich, Scalo Verlag : 2000

Seller ID: 926

SCARCE LIMITED EDITION COMPILATION OF 25 SHORT STORIES ILLUSTRATED BY PHOTOGRAPHS OF MURDER VICTIMS TAKEN BY FRENCH CRIMINALIST ALPHONSE BERTILLON--INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR, EUGENIA PARRY. 9 1/4 inches tall hardcover, color printed laminated covers, no dust jacket or endpapers as published, inscribed and signed by author on title page, 319 pages with many black & white illustrations from a photographic album collection of Gerard Levy, Paris, historic archives, and La Photographie judiciaire by Alphonse Bertillon, Paris 1890. Fine. EUGENIA PARRY (born 1940), formerly professor of art history at Well...
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Somatosensory Changes after Penetrating Brain Wounds in Man

By: Semmes, Josephine, Weinstein, Sidney, Ghent, Lila and Teuber, Hans-Lukas

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press : 1960

Seller ID: 585

1960 CLASSIC STUDY OF BRAIN INJURY IN COMBAT VETERANS AT NYU-BELLEVUE CONTRIBUTED TO UNDERSTANDING NORMAL NEUROPHYSIOLOGY. 10 1/2 inches tall hardcover, tan cloth binding, title to cover and spine, xiii, 91 pp, 18 tables, 9 figures. Very good in very good price-clipped dust jacket. FOREWORD: This monograph describes one of a series of studies that have been under way for more than. ten years in the Psychophysiological Laboratory (New York University-Bellevue Medical Center), a unit concerned with investigations of brain function in man. To this end, the laboratory has studied effects of penetr...
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Common Happenings in Childhood

By: Still GF

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London, Oxford University Press : 1938

Seller ID: 60

SCARCE FIRST EDITION OF ESSAYS ON CHILDREN'S BEHAVIOR BY THE FATHER OF BRITISH PEDIATRICS. 7 1/2 inches tall hardcover, ix, 180 pages, original navy blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine, unmarked, very good. CONTENTS: of crying, of laughter, of temper, of tiredness, of appetite, of fears and antipathies, of sleep, and of school. SIR GEORGE FREDERIC STILL (1868 - 1941) was an English paediatrician and author of numerous medical textbooks and articles who first described a form of juvenile idiopathic arthritis as well as the common functional Still's murmur,[1] both of which bear his name, as ...
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Homing and Related Activities in Birds together with The Acqusition of Skill in Archery

By: Watson, J. B. and Lashley, K. S.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Washington, D.C., Carnegie Institution : 1915

Seller ID: 676

1915 TWO ILLUSTRATED MONOGRAPHS BY PIONEERS IN THE SCHOOL OF BEHAVIORISM: HOMING IN BIRDS AND ARCHERY SKILLS IN HUMANS. 10 inches tall hardcover, green cloth binding, blindstamped, gilt title to spine, institutional bookplate to front paste-down, Homing and Related Activities of Birds: frontis plate of flocks of shore birds, pp 1-104, 7 black & white photographic plates, 10 text figures; The Acqusition of Skill in Archery, pp 105-128, 2 plates, 9 text figures. Covers darkened with surface wear, small paper library label bottom spine, binding tight, pages age-toned but crisp and unmarked, very ...
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Chimpanzees: A Laboratory Colony

By: Yerkes, Robert M.

Price: $300.00

Publisher: New Haven, Yale University Press : 1943

Seller ID: 1295

1943 ILLUSTRATED MONOGRAPH ON THE STUDY OF CHIMPANZEE BEHAVIOR BY LEADING AMERICAN PRIMATOLOGIST ROBERT YERKES--INSCRIBED TO A NEIGHBOR AND SIGNED BY HIM. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, publisher's red cloth binding, gilt title to spine, xv, 321 pp, 63 full-page photoplates, 24 text-figures. There is an ink inscription signed by the author to Anne Vance, dated August 1943, on the front endpaper: Anne Vance/ Our neighborly neighbor, whom ape fanatics will not bore, neither will they edify. What, then, remains but to entertain. Robert M. Yerkes, August, 1943. ROBERT MEANS YERKES (1876 - 1956) was ...
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The Dancing Mouse: A Study in Animal Behavior

By: Yerkes, Robert Mearns

Price: $250.00

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Co. : 1907

Seller ID: 1254

1907 FIRST BOOK BY COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGIST AND PRIMATOLOGIST ROBERT YERKES--A GUIDE TO THE STUDY OF ANIMAL BEHAVIOR BASED ON PERSONAL OBSERVATIONS OF DANCING MICE--SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. 8 inches tall hardcover, publisher's brown cloth binding, embossed title to cover, gilt title to spine, inscribed and signed front free endpaper, A souvenir to Dr. and Mrs. Nitschi, September, 1944/ from Robert M. Yerkes, frontis photographs of dancing mice, xxi, 290 pp, 33 figures, 53 tables. Light rubbing to cover edges, light browning to page edges, very good in custom archival mylar cover. ROBERT MEARNS YE...
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Category: Psychology