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WUNDT, Wilhelm (1832-1920). Untersuchungen ber das Verhalten der Nerven in entzndeten und degenerirten Organen. Heidelberg, 1856. Lithographed plate at end. Disbound, new green paper spine (small tear at bottom edge of title-leaf). Wundt's inaugural dissertation. -- Grundzge der physiologischen Psychologie. Leipzig, 1874. Text wood-engravings. Contemporary brown morocco-backed marbled boards (spine faded, slight edge wear, light foxing to text). Garrison-Morton 4976; Horblit 100a. -- Lectures on Human and Animal Psychology. Translated by J.E. Creighton and Edward Bradford. London and New York, 1894. Original brown cloth, partly unopened (upper part of covers dampstained and worn). Provenance: FROM THE LIBRARY OF JOHN DEWEY (1859-1952), the American pragmatist philosopher and educational theorist, with his signature on title and on the second leaf. Together 3 volumes, 8o. FIRST EDITIONS of the first two works, First Edition in English of the third. Norman 2269-2271. "The Grundzge, the book that made Wundt's reputation, is the foundation of experimental psychology, which uses quantitative methods to study psychological processes such as perception and the formation of ideas...He later established the first laboratory devoted to experimental psychology..." (Norman). (3)

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WUNDT, Wilhelm (1832-1920). Untersuchungen ber das Verhalten der Nerven in entzndeten und degenerirten Organen. Heidelberg, 1856. Lithographed plate at end. Disbound, new green paper spine (small tear at bottom edge of title-leaf). Wundt's inaugural dissertation. -- Grundzge der physiologischen Psychologie. Leipzig, 1874. Text wood-engravings. Contemporary brown morocco-backed marbled boards (spine faded, slight edge wear, light foxing to text). Garrison-Morton 4976; Horblit 100a. -- Lectures on Human and Animal Psychology. Translated by J.E. Creighton and Edward Bradford. London and New York, 1894. Original brown cloth, partly unopened (upper part of covers dampstained and worn). Provenance: FROM THE LIBRARY OF JOHN DEWEY (1859-1952), the American pragmatist philosopher and educational theorist, with his signature on title and on the second leaf. Together 3 volumes, 8o. FIRST EDITIONS of the first two works, First Edition in English of the third. Norman 2269-2271. "The Grundzge, the book that made Wundt's reputation, is the foundation of experimental psychology, which uses quantitative methods to study psychological processes such as perception and the formation of ideas...He later established the first laboratory devoted to experimental psychology..." (Norman). (3)