Lot 366
365 Freud (Sigmund). Zur Auffassung der Aphasien, 1st edition, Leipzig & Vienna: Franz Deuticke, 1891, wood-engraved diagrams to text, a few scattered marginal pencil (and one pen) marks, title and final blank page a little spotted and lightly browned, later cloth with printed panel from original upper wrapper laid on to upper cover, slightly rubbed and soiled, 8vo (224 x 145mm) First edition of Freud’s first book which though little known or appreciated at the time was regarded by Freud as the most significant of his neurological writings. Of the 850 copies printed, only 257 were sold over nine years and the remainder of the edition was pulped. Provenance: This book and the book in the preceding lot were acquired by the current owner from descendants of the German-born Argentinian Jewish psychiatrist Eduardo Krapf (1901-1963), who fled Adolf Hitler’s Germany and became the first president of the Sociedad interamericana de psychologia and the head of the Mental Health Division in the World Health Organisation. Norman F15. (1) £1000-1500
367 Goethe (Johann Wolfgang von). Zur Farbenlehre, 2 volumes (Text), 1st edition, Tubingen, 1810, a little light spotting and browning, together with a later accompanying edition of the Atlas volume, Sechszehn Tafeln zu Goethe’s Farbenlehre und Siebenundzwanzig Tafeln zu dessen Beitrage zur Optik nebst Erklarung, Stuttgart & Tubingen, 1842, 17 engraved plates to part 1 including 12 hand-coloured, 27 lithographed illustrations (13 handcoloured) on 9 plates to second part, printed upper wrapper retained, wrapper, text leaves and first plate heavily spotted and browned, uniform 19th-century green boards gilt, rubbed with a little wear to extremities, 8vo/4to (198 x 120mm / 232 x 188mm)
366 Goethe (Johann Wolfgang von). Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, 4 volumes, 1st edition, Frankfurt & Leipzig, 1795-96, 5 folding musical scores (of 8, lacking scores from volumes 3 & 4), lacks initial and final blank of volume 1 and initial blank of volume 2, first title lightly browned and old ink manuscript notes in German to front free endpaper, contemporary uniform half calf gilt with contrasting leather labels to spines, slightly rubbed and soiled, small 8vo (4)
The culmination of Goethe’s work on optics. This was an unsuccessful attempt to demonstrate against Newton’s view that white light is composite. First published in English as ‘Theory of Colours’ in 1840. (3) £1000-1500
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