FREUD, Sigmund. Zur Auffassung der Aphasien. Eine kritische Studie . Leipzig and Vienna: Franz Deuticke, 1891. 8 o (225 x 148 mm). 10 text wood-engravings. Contemporary dark blue half cloth and marbled boards, spine gilt-lettered, original printed gray front wrapper bound in (spine skillfully repaired, some edge wear); black half-morocco folding case. Provenance : Wilhelm Fliess (presentation inscription to him from Freud); the Fliess family; Jeffrey Masson, editor of The Complete Letters of Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess; 1887-1904 (1985); acquired from Masson by Haskell F. Norman in 1989. FIRST EDITION OF FREUD'S FIRST BOOK (preceded by offprints and a collaborative work). PRESENTATION COPY TO WILHELM FLIESS, his confidant and closest friend at the time (see note to lot 1351), inscribed by Freud at top right corner of bound-in front wrapper (three letters in inscription just touched): "Herrn Dr. Wihl. Fliess/mit herzlichen Grusse/der Verf." "In a letter to Fliess dated 2 May 1891, Freud promised to send Fliess 'in a few weeks...a small book on aphasia [this copy], for which I myself have a great deal of warm feeling. In it I am very imprudent, cross swords with your friend Wernicke, with Lichtheim and Grashey, and even scratch the high and mighty idol [Theodor] Meynert [Freud's former teacher at the University of Vienna]. I am very curious to hear what you will say about this endeavor'" (Norman). "Freud's treatise on aphasia [loss or impairment of the ability to use words]..,.was little known or appreciated by contemporary neurologists [of the 850 copies printed, only 257 were sold over nine years and the remainder of the edition was pulped], but Freud always regarded it as the most significant of his neurological writings...Departing from the mechanical views of the Helmholtz school, Freud approached the development of speech and reading from a psychological standpoint...Freud dedicated this book to his older colleague and mentor, Joseph Breuer, with 'friendly admiration,' but was disappointed in Breuer's seeming disdain of this gesture" (Norman). Grinstein 2; Jones I, pp. 233-236; Standard edition 189lb; Stanford 21; Norman F15.
FREUD, Sigmund. Zur Auffassung der Aphasien. Eine kritische Studie . Leipzig and Vienna: Franz Deuticke, 1891. 8 o (225 x 148 mm). 10 text wood-engravings. Contemporary dark blue half cloth and marbled boards, spine gilt-lettered, original printed gray front wrapper bound in (spine skillfully repaired, some edge wear); black half-morocco folding case. Provenance : Wilhelm Fliess (presentation inscription to him from Freud); the Fliess family; Jeffrey Masson, editor of The Complete Letters of Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess; 1887-1904 (1985); acquired from Masson by Haskell F. Norman in 1989. FIRST EDITION OF FREUD'S FIRST BOOK (preceded by offprints and a collaborative work). PRESENTATION COPY TO WILHELM FLIESS, his confidant and closest friend at the time (see note to lot 1351), inscribed by Freud at top right corner of bound-in front wrapper (three letters in inscription just touched): "Herrn Dr. Wihl. Fliess/mit herzlichen Grusse/der Verf." "In a letter to Fliess dated 2 May 1891, Freud promised to send Fliess 'in a few weeks...a small book on aphasia [this copy], for which I myself have a great deal of warm feeling. In it I am very imprudent, cross swords with your friend Wernicke, with Lichtheim and Grashey, and even scratch the high and mighty idol [Theodor] Meynert [Freud's former teacher at the University of Vienna]. I am very curious to hear what you will say about this endeavor'" (Norman). "Freud's treatise on aphasia [loss or impairment of the ability to use words]..,.was little known or appreciated by contemporary neurologists [of the 850 copies printed, only 257 were sold over nine years and the remainder of the edition was pulped], but Freud always regarded it as the most significant of his neurological writings...Departing from the mechanical views of the Helmholtz school, Freud approached the development of speech and reading from a psychological standpoint...Freud dedicated this book to his older colleague and mentor, Joseph Breuer, with 'friendly admiration,' but was disappointed in Breuer's seeming disdain of this gesture" (Norman). Grinstein 2; Jones I, pp. 233-236; Standard edition 189lb; Stanford 21; Norman F15.
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