Anatomy Of Melancholy

Burton, Robert, Rev. A. R Shilleto [edited] and A. H. Bullen [introduction]: The Anatomy of Melancholy, 3 Volumes, , New York Published by George Bell & Sons , 1893
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Burton, Robert, Rev. A. R Shilleto [edited] and A. H. Bullen [introduction], The Anatomy of Melancholy

, Volume 1 [xxxi] 505 pages with 2 black & white tissue guarded frontispiece's, Volume 2 has 302 pages, Volume 3 has 541 pages including an index text of sixth edition 23 x 15 cm Hardback , uncut pages in volumes 2 and 3, rubbed and sunned covers, a little foxing, books in good condition , Green cloth with ornate gilt spine

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Burton, Robert: The anatomy of melancholy: what it is, with all the kinds, causes, symptomes, prognostickes, and severall cures of it. In three partions, with their severall sections, members, and subsections. Philosophically, medicinally, historically opened and cut up, by Democritus Junior. With a satyricall preface, conducing to the following discourse, London, printed for Peter Parker, 1676 (achte Ausg., "corrected and augmented by the author").
HUNTER/MACALPINE 94ff.: "most frequently reprinted psychiatric text". OSLER: "größte medizinische Abhandlung von einem Laien geschrieben"; ALEXANDER/SELESNICK 140ff.: "Burtons Einstellung zur Geisteskrankheit war für seine Zeit so fortschrittlich, dass sein Buch keine unmittelbaren Vorläufer und keine unmittelbaren Nachfolger hatte, obwohl er einen großen Teil der in späteren Jahrhunderten geschriebenen englischen Literatur beeinflußte. Burton erkannte die wichtigsten psychodynamischen Komponenten der Melancholie und schilderte einige der wesentlichen Prinzipien der Psychoanalyse". - Burton (1577-1640) war theologischer Dekan in Oxford. Die EA der "Anatomy..." stammt aus dem Jahr 1621, hier liegt die letzte des 17. Jahrhunderts vor. Aus dem Vorbesitz der berühmten Büchersammler und Bibliophilen Henry Perkins (1755-1855) aus Springfield, Surrey, und von Robert Hoe III (1839-1909)

Folio, Ledereinband des 19. Jhdt. unter Verwendung alten Materials neu gebunden (bound by Hering, 9 Newman Street), beide Deckel innen und außen mit vergoldeter und blindgeprägter Verzierung, zwei alte Ex-Libris, gest. Titel mit Porträt des Verfassers (LeBlon), 4 Bl., 46 S. (Democritus to the Reader), 3 Bl. (Synopsis), 434 S., 4 Bl. (An Alphabetical Table),1 Bl. (Verlagsanzeigen), hervorragendes Exemplar

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Turberville, George. The Booke of Faulconrie or Hauking, for the onely delight and pleasure of all Noblemen and Gentlemen: Collected out of the best aucthors, asvvell Italians as Frenchmen, and some English practises withall concernyng faulconrie, the contentes whereof are to be seene in the next page folowyng. By George Turberuile Gentleman. London, Christopher Barker, 1575. ; 1. Ed.
Rare first edition of the "best known English book on hawking" (Schwerdt), replete with 42 charming woodcuts. The present work is a comprehensive guide to all aspects of falconry, promising to teach the reader "to knowe all kinds of Hawkes, and to have the cunning how to reclayme, keepe, flee, ympe, & mewe the sayd Hawkes, with sundry other like matters incident and appertayning to Falconrie". Although imported hawks were an exceptional luxury in 16th century Europe, Turberville does give significant mention to the "Barbary" and even "Tunisian" falcons, replete with illustrations. - Turberville's account is acknowledged as a valuable source of 16th century terminology and practice (cf., eg., Grassby), and figures prominently in the literary history of the sport: "Despite its medieval associations, falconry retained its high status into the sixteenth century and even received a boost from the printing press." Grassby describes the "culture of hunting" in Early Modern England as "a form of pleasure and relaxation which was thought to offer an emotional link with the natural world"; the present treatise, with its remarkably detailed and perceptive veterinary section (running to 150 pages), certainly demonstrates the high esteem which 16th century falconers held for their charges. As Turberville indeed notes, "it is very necessary and behovefull for [the reader] to have knowledge and good experience in their diseases and cures: for that they are birds subject to sundrie maladies and accidents, the cure of all which dothe rest in the careful keeper". - According to Grassby, Turberville wrote for the nobility and gentry, who were of course the primary consumers of falconry during the period; the annotations found in the margins of the present copy certainly show a easy familiarity with hawking. Hawks were bequeathed in wills, and it was a felony to steal a manned hawk. "He is no body," noted Robert Burton in his 'Anatomy of Melancholy', "that in the season hath not a Hawk on his fist". - Persistent but light staining. Occasional dog-earing, worming, minor tears and printer's faults with very minor losses of text (X5, X6, and Z4 are the worst examples). - Rare, only one complete of the present first edition in auction records of the past decades (but 17 copies of the 1611 reprint). - BM-STC 567. Harting 14. Souhart 469. Schwerdt 270-271 ("rare"). R. Grassby, "The Decline of Falconry in Early Modern England", Past and Present (1997) 157 (1), 37-62.

Small 4to. [14 ms. pages, supplied from 1611 ed.], 7-371 pp. [lacking pp. 279-282], [lacking two unnumbered leaves of epilogue], [errata leaf]. Numerous mispaginations as called for. First 8 leaves (dedication, prefatory poem, and 3 leaves of main text) lacking but instead supplied in contemporary ms. from the 1611 edition, although the scribe did not feel obliged to copy out Turberville's lengthy poem). Numerous half-page or full-page woodcuts in text. Contemp. but brief annotations throughout, occasionally trimmed too closely. Bound in modern brown old-style morocco.

[SW: Naher Osten: Reisen, Geschichte, Falknerei und Pferde, Land- und Forstwirtschaft, Garten, Jagd, Kochbücher, Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Technik, Literatur, illustrierte Bücher vor 1880]

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SAPOSNIK, IRVING S: ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, New York Twayne Publishers 1974 ; 1. Ed.
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'Twayne's English Authors Series' - Teas 167. Contents: Preface and chronology. 1). The light-keeper. 2). No more the melancholy Jacques. 3). A skelt-drunken boy. 4). Runes among the heather. 5). A single glimps - A few sharp sounds. 6). The anatomy of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. 7). A pursuit of nightingales. 8). Requiem. With a portrait of Stevenson, notes, references, selected bibliography and index. 164 pag. 1st edition Hard bound/goldprint 21cmx14cm; 1st edition

[SW: baxter sidney colvin joseph furnas william ernest henley fanny osbourne shakespeare]

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