MITCHELL, Wesley Clair.

A history of the greenbacks with special reference to the economic consequences of their issue: 1862-65....

Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1903.

First edition. A famous study of the Union’s attempts to prevent inflation after issuing the first paper money in the United States that operated as legal tender for bullion, called ‘demand notes’ or ‘greenbacks’ (since they were printed in green on the back), by keeping down the price...

£275

RIBOT, Théodule.

La psychologie Allemande contemporaine. [École Expérimentale].

Paris, Baillière, 1879.

First edition, a nice association. The ‘new’ Germany psychology was scientific and empirical, relying solely on observation of physical phenomena. Ribot’s work was published in the same year as the establishment of Wilhelm Wundt’s psychological laboratory in Leipzig; he was delighted with the...

£175

RIBOT, Théodule.

The diseases of personality. Authorised translation.

Chicago, Open Court Publishing Company, 1891.

First separate edition in English; there appears to have been an earlier appearance with other of Ribot’s Diseases; first published in French in 1885. A study of mental illnesses including double personality (‘double monsters’, and twins), insanity, sexual characteristics such as ‘opposite...

£125

SCRIPTURE, Edward Wheeler.

The new psychology. [The Contemporary Science Series].

London and New York, Scott and Scribner’s, 1898.

First British edition, from a series edited by Havelock Ellis; first published 1897 in America. Scripture founded a laboratory for experimental psychology at Yale University, the experiments of which are described here, and was a founder of the American Psychological Association. He trained under Wilhelm...

£100

SIMMEL, Georg.

Philosophische Kultur. Gesammelte Essais. [Philosophischsoziologische Bücherei, Band XXVII].

Leipzig, Klinkhardt, 1911.

First edition.

£45

SIMMEL, Georg.

Rembrandt, ein kunstphilosophischer Versuch.

Leipzig, Wolff, 1916.

First edition.

£50

SIMMEL, Georg.

Lebensanschauung, vier metaphysische Kapitel.

Munich and Leipzig, Duncker & Humblot, 1918.

First edition.

£35

SPENCER IN AMERICA SPENCER, Herbert.

The study of sociology. [The International Scientific Series].

New York, Appleton, 1874.

First edition thus, the first American appearance of the sociological portion of Spencer’s ‘philosophical system’, which commenced in 1860, and thus the first appearance in America of his foundational system of sociology, which unified Darwinian evolution and social science, famous for introducing...

£100

[SPENCER, Herbert.]

GEORGE, Henry. A perplexed philosopher, being an examination of Mr. Herbert Spencer’s various utterances...

New York, Webster, 1892.

First edition. A perhaps ill-conceived attack on Herbert Spencer, considering that at the time, as the author freely admits, the British philosopher, ‘of all his contemporaries, [held] the foremost place in the intellectual world, and through a wider circle than any man living, and perhaps than any...

£65

SPURZHEIM, Johann Gaspar.

A view of the elementary principles of education, founded on the study of the nature of man.

Boston, Marsh Capen and Lyon, 1832.

First American edition, ‘revised and improved by the author, from the third London ed.’; first published in Edinburgh in 1821. A typically eccentric work by the German phrenologist Spurzheim including observations on development of the brain, drawn in part from the study of ancient cultures. The...

£125

SULLY, James.

Illusions, a psychological study. [The International Scientific Series, Vol. 34].

London, Kegan Paul, 1881.

First edition of Sully’s study of perception, dreams and memory, with his discussion of psychology as a ‘positive science’. It was supposedly praised by Freud and Wundt.

£100