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Description:
This is a hard bound book containing issues of The Humboldt Library of Popular Science. This was basically a science magazine for popular reading. There appears to be 14 issues. However, only two of the subject headings have the name of the magazine as a header, and these appear in the middle of the book. Also, the paper is different in these sections than the other paper throughout the book. But the binding is the original late 1800's hard cover with leather corners and spine with "Humboldt Library" impressed on the spine. The two sections that are dated are from January 1884 and February 1885. As you can see, the leather areas on the cover show a lot of wear. The gold gilt on the spine is almost completely worn. There are splits at the top and bottom of the spine, but the book is still tight. There is one small bit of paper missing on both the front and back decorated endpages and a previous owner's name is stamped on the front endpage and the next one, "Dr. W.A.B. Sellman". There is a stain that looks like ink on the top of the book pages that also shows at the very top of just a few of the pages inside. Other than that, the pages are in fantastic condition, slightly age-toned, but with no wrinkles, marks, tears, stains, or abuse.
The sections include:
- Mind and Body: Theories of Their Relation
- Seeing & Thinking
- Hereditary Traits and Other Essays (such as Artificial Somnambulism and Dual Consciousness)
- Diseases of the Memory
- Diseases of the Will
- 2 sections on Illusions: A Psychological Study
- Conditions of Mental Development & Other Essays
- Illusions of the Senses (the contents in this section includes "Monster Sea-Serpents" and "Life in Other Worlds"
- Morphinomania (the Morphine Addict), including a study of insanity in twins
- Diseases of Personality
- Aesthetics, Dreams and Association of Ideas
- Psychology of Attention
- Hypnotism: Its History and Present Development
The pages are not numbered sequentially all the way through the book, but it is about 600 pages total. The book is 6" by 9-1/2". This is a fascinating look at the field of psychology in the late 1800's.
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