bateman sir frederic (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. 2nd Edition. 1897 second edition hardback. Truly scary reading by today's standards, frontis picture shows The Eastern Counties' Asylum for Idiots and Imbeciles. The learned Sir Bateman defines an idiot as "a defective organisation and want of development of the brain, resulting in an inability for the excersise of the inte.llectual, moral and sensitive faculties" . The chapter on The Brain of Idiots attempts to identify physical characteristics of idiots such as p49"three-fifths of idiots have larger heads than men of ordinary intelligence". Interior very clean with no writing, marks or tears. Burgundy cloth covers clean and unscuffed.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Second Edition. 420, 8 p. 23 cm. Frontispiece and one other diagram. Burgundy pebbled cloth with blank impressing. Light wear to extremities and spotting to text block edge. Foxing to first pages and spot at top of half title.