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London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979. 1st ed. . Reddish brown cloth. Fine/Fine (-). 16 Cms x 24 Cms. vi+297; book virtually pristine, unclipped jacket nearly so but slight sunfading to spine, will add protective sleeve when ordered. Useful but superceded by Kerry Buckley's 1989 biography 'Mechanical Man' (of which I have 2 copies available, both listed). Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.
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J.B.WATSON THE FOUNDER OF BEHAVIOURISM A Biography
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J.E.PURKYNE AND PSYCHOLOGY with a focus on unpublished manuscripts
by PURKYNE, J.E. ed. J. Brozek and J. Hoskovec. PURKYNE often spelled PURKINJE
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Prague: Academia Praha, 1987. 1st ed. . Grey Cloth. VG-Fine/Good-VG. 16 Cms x 24 Cms. 138 pp.; small Roger Smith ownership stamp to front pastedown, half-title inscr. 'With compliments/ Jiro (?) Hoskovec/ Prague', otherwise clean, tight and unmarked in clean unworn covers, unclipped jacket clean but widely edge-rubbed, will add protective sleeve when ordered. Purkyne's texts mainly in German, one French, one Czech, also a Russian summary at end, introductory and editorial text in English. Purkyne (or Purkinje as usually anglicised) (1787-1869) was a pioneer Czech physiologist/ neurologist especially concerned wiht what would now be called physiological psychology', especially in relation to perception. He is now remembered almost soley by the 'Purkinje effect' (colour sensitivity shifts to blue end of spectrum as light level declines) but this collection of hithero unpublished manuscript material shows that his contribution was far broader than this. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated…
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J.H.MASON 1875-1951 SCHOLAR-PRINTER
by OWENS, L.T.
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London: Frederick Muller, 1976. 1st Edition . Blue Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 19 Cms x 25.5 Cms. f/piece+xvi+192, num.further ills. ex-lib but only evidence of this is a sm. number verso t.p., a thin line across top edge near sp. and ripple in middle of fr. free endpaper, otherwise internally excellent in bright unworn covers; jacket clean & unclipped with a few nicks at extrems and a small darker label ghost bottom sp. Note: quoted non-UK shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.
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JACQUE LACAN and the Freudian Practice of Psychoanalysis
by NOBUS, Dany
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London: Routledge, 2002. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Soft cover. As New. Illustrated p/b cover pristine. xiv + 258; pristine. 13.5 cm x 21.5 cm
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JACQUES MARITAIN
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London: Sheed & Ward, 1937. 1st UK ed. . Green Cloth. VG/No Jacket. 10.5 Cms x 17 Cms. 37 pp.; 1944-dated sig. fr.endpaper otherwise internally clean, tight & unmarked; covers clean & unworn though sp.sl.sunfaded, no sp.lettering. '.an expansion of a lecture delivered . in New York City, January 21, 1936'.
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JACQUES LACAN Esquisse d'une vie, histoire d'un systene de pensee
by ROUDINESCO, Elisabeth
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n.p. assume Paris: Fayard, 1993. Assume 1st ed. . Soft cover. Near Fine. Glossy cover with Lacan photo, touch only of rubbing to outer corners and sm. bump centre bottom spine. 723 pp. + colophon, 22 photos on 12 pages (in two blocks: 4, 8) ex-pagination; no obvious faults being clean, tight and unmarked. A 2021 book seller supply note to original purchaser slipped in. Uncommon in UK. 15 cm x 23 cm
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JAHRBUCH 1938 DER DEUTSCHEN LUFTFAHRTFORSCHUNG Erganzungsband. Unter Mitwirkung des Reichsluftfahrministeriums und der Lilienthal-Gesellschaft fur Luftfahrforschung
by Various
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Munich and Berlin: R. Oldenbourg, 1938. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good+/No Jacket. 21.5 Cms x 30 Cms. unpag.prelims+403, num.figs & b/w photos throughout. A most intriguing document actually reporting the proceedings of a fully Nazified (see 1st ill.) international aeronautics conference organized by the Lilienthal Institute and held in Berlin 12-15 October 1938. The first paper is by E. Heinkel himself, and among those participating are people from the U.S. Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory, The Royal Aeronautical Establishment at Farnborough U.K., the French Air Ministry, Rolls-Royce, Transcontinental & Western Air Inc., Sikorsky Aircraft, Conn. (Sikorsky himself no less) and the Bristol Aeroplane Company. Ostensibly they are all happily exhanging highly technical information about numerous aeronautical engineering issues. What the hell was really going on here, 11 months prior to the outbreak of World War 2? To return to the book - internally excellent, clean and unmarked, although some…
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JAMAICA PROVERBS AND SAYINGS
by ANDERSON, Izett and CUNDALL, Frank
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Shannon: Irish University Press, 1972. Reprint of 1927 2nd ed. (1st-1910) . p/back. VG-Fine. 14 Cms x 21 Cms. 128 pp, numerous illustrative text images throughout; near fine but prev.owner's sig. top front endpaper andback cover just a tad browned with a couple of very small brown marks by top spine. A very nice copy, Includes 1383 proverbs/sayings, 72 riddles, a 'Jamaica alphabet' and a 2 pp. bibliography. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.
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JAMES AND JOHN STUART MILL Father and Son in the Nineteenth Century
by MAZLISH, Bruce
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New York: Basic Books, 1975. 1st ed. . Blue Cloth. VG/Good-VG. 16.5 Cms x 24 Cms. xii+484, fore-edge uncut; small chip to bottom edge of half-title (may actually be a paper fault), otherwise internally clean, tight & unmarked; covers clean and unworn but thin faded strip along top where exposed by jacket and hints of these to bottom also, jacket clean but top edge rubbed and curling, bottom sp.slightly rubbed, small dust patch bottom outer corner of text-block. A classic exercise in psychoanalytically oriented psycho-biography as well as historically informative. Note: quoted non-UK shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.
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JAMES AND JOHN STUART MILL Father and Son in the Nineteenth Century
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London: Hutchinson, 1975. 1st UK ed. . Green Cloth. Fine/Good-VG. 16 Cms x 24 Cms. xii+484; virtually pristine with no obvious faults inside or out; unclipped jacket generally clean but extensive slight edge-rubbing & nicking, with hints of surface rubbing and very slight shallow creasing lower front, will add protective sleeve when ordered. Mazlish's psychobiograpical work, much acclaimed on publication. A classic of psychoanalytically influenced psychohistory. A nice copy despite cover faults. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.
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JAMES CHALMERS INVENTOR OF THE ADHESIVE POSTAGE STAMP. A short summary of the invention of the adhesive postage stamp
by SMITH, W.J. Edited 'with assistance from J.E. Metcalfe'
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Dundee: David Winter & Son Ltd, 1970. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/VG-. Blue cloth with black fr. & spine lettering, no obvious faults. f/piece + 148 + (1, photo) + (unf. yellow facs.)+ (4, blue facs. correspondence, 2 unfolding), 5 plates ex-pagination; pencil gift inscription top front end-paper probably from Smith, otherwise no obvious faults. Clean unclipped jacketunworn bar sl.top sp.rub, but scattered surface rubbing also. An exposure of how Roland Hill gained the credit for inventing the modern postage stamp when its previous locally documented invention by Dundee-based James Chalmers clearly establishes his priority, with Hill's removal of Chalmers's correspondence from H.M. Treasury offices gaining him the historical credit (a short 1891 publication regarding this by his son James Chalmers in incliuded). 13.5 cm x 19.5 cm
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JAMES COOK Gifts and Treasures from the Southern Seas/ Gaebn und Schatze aus der Sudsee
by HAUSER-SCHAUBLIN, Brigitta; KRUGER, Gundolf with 8 further contributors
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Munich and New York: Prestel, 1998. 1st ed. . Blue Cloth. Fine/Fine. 24.5 x 30 cms. Map of Cook's three voyages across front pastedown-endpaper, f/piece verso half-title+351 pp., text ills throughouyt numbered by chapter, central colour-plate block pp.97-138. Virtually pristine inside and out in similar unclipped jacket, 22 pp. II make it) publisher's catalogue slipped in). Will add protective sleeve to jacket when ordered. Weighs 2.04 kg so allow for additional postage.
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JAMES GEORGE FRAZER The Portrait of a Scholar
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London: Watts & Co, 1940. 1st ed. . Dark Cloth. Good+/No Jacket. 14.5 Cm x 22 Cm. f/piece portrait photo+ix+141; internally clean, tight and unmakred but faint tanning to outer sides of endpapers, covers clean and unworn but white spine lettering seriously rubbed with c. 60% loss of text; slipped in is a 24 pp. promotional pamphlet for the 'The Works of Sir James George Frazer O.M.',(11.5 cm x 18 cm) portrait sculpture on unnumbered first page is exposed by a window in front cover, which is grey-green card with gilt decoration and title to front, this is VG but has gilt ownership label verso 1st leaf and and gutter opening between this and p.1 - aside from these two faults it is in near pristine condition. Frazer's dates were 1854-1941, this book thus appeared the year before his death. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.
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JAMES HACK TUKE A Memoir
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London: Macmillan, 1899. 1st ed. . Green Cloth. G-VG/No Jacket. 13.5 Cm x 21 Cm. f/piece portrait with tissue guard+xii+354+(2, pub.list); front endpaper has 1916-dated donation inscription to the Tunbridge Wells Meeting House Library,above a later address stamp of the Society of Friends in Tunbridge Wells, some incipient internal gutter opening which needs attention otherwise internally clean, tight & unmarked, top edge has some ingrained dust marking, covers generally clean and minimally worn but spine faded to brown and has faint light round lib.label ghost. A member of the famous Quaker Tuke family of York, who were much involved with the mentally ill and psychiatry from late 1700s through most of 19th century, James was a banker/philanthropist and devout Quaker much involved will trying to alleviate distress in Ireland in the wake of the Great Famine. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.
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JAMES LEES-MILNE Diaries 1942-1954
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London: John Murray, 2006. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. Black cloth with silver sp. lettering. Ill. end-papers. xv + 496. Unclipped jacket, will add protective sleeve when ordered, No obvious faults at all. 16 cm x 24 cm
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JAMES LIND Founder of Nautical Medicine
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London: W.H. Heinemann, 1951. 1st ed. . Blue Cloth. VG-Fine/VG. 14 Cms x 21.5 Cms. xii+177; near pristine but brown mark across bottom corner rear endpaper and faint line down centre of front endpaper offset from wraparound edge, blue cloth covers clean and unworn; jacket is very clean and bright but front wraparound has rather large bottom price-clipping which has touch last line of text, spine ends very slightly rubbed and small surface scuff near top back joint, will add protective sleeve when added, given age it is remarkably good. Lind is celebrated in medical history for discovering the cause of scurvy and thus revolutionising long distince sea travel.
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JAMES MARTINEAU A Biography and Study
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London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1900. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good (+)/No Jacket. Dark cloth covers, clean but light rubbing to spine ends, joints and corners. f/piece with tissue guard+xi+459+32 (pub. catalogue), light tanning to endpapers, rather large and pretentious 1968-dated red inscription recto side of f/piece with 2 lines in Greek , signature and address, slight marginal tanning throughout, have spotted a number of marginal pencil lines and odd marginal word. A sound tight copy but really a working/reference copy only due to faults. 15 cm x 25 cm
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JAMES MILL ON PHILOSOPHY AND EDUCATION
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London: Athlone Press, 1973. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine-/Good+. Red cloth with gilt sp. lettering, virtually pristine but just a hint of text-block cocking. unpaginated prelims + 254; bookseller's sm. black label bottom back pastedown, otherwise fine. Clipped jacket has slight sp. end-rubbing and light tanning to sp. and edges, grey label remioval ghost centre fr. which is rather unsightly otherwise generally clean, will add protective sleeve when ordered. 14 cm x 22 cm
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JAMES SIMPSON and Chloroform
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London: Priory Press, 1973. 1st ed. . Blue Cloth. Fine/Fine-. 20 Cms x 24 cms. Issued in the 'Pioneers of Science and Discovery' series. 96 pp., ills. throughout (unnumbered); book pristine, unclipped jacket nearly so but small scuff to top outer corner has caused a short shallow crease diagonally towards centre, this of little consequence however and will add protective sleeve when ordered. Note: quoted non-UK shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.
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JAN EVANGELISTA PURKYNE
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Prague: State Publishing House. 1st Edition . Light Grey Cloth. Good+/Good+. 15.5 Cms x 21 Cms. f/piece portrait+143, R.M.Young's dated sig.top fr.free endpaper+ 'gift from the author' note, otherwise internally clean, tight & unmarked, covers clean & unworn but sl.fading towards top and knock to lower fr.corner has sl.cracked underlying board resulting in sl.splitting to fr.pastedown; unclipped jacket clean but all edges rubbed/nicked.
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