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NY: Pocket Books, (1948.) Vintage paperback. 1st Pocket edition, with "1st Printing, June 1948" stated on the copyright page. A study of Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis. Includes material on his theories related to repressed desires, dreams, the superego, sexualized personality, and more. Complete, unabridged edition. (First published in 1932 under the title The House that Freud Built.) 290 pp., with (2) page list of selected Pocket Books. (PB no. 522.) VG with only slight wear. Typical age-toning of the text pages, but clean and unmarked otherwise. Appears to have never been read. No creasing, prior owner signatures or other flaws.

Bononiae: G. Luchesinii, 1810. First and only edition of Testa's scarce address on Marcello Malpighi (1628-1694.) The Italian biologist and physician founded the science of microscopic anatomy and allowed for great advances in physiology and embryology. 45 pp. Latin text. Original binding of one-quarter leather and marbled boards. 21 x 14 cm. Sound and complete. Wear at the head of the spine and along the joints. Moderate foxing of the text. Provenance: Brief ink notations dated 1811 indicate this copy was presented by Testa (Italian physician, 1756-1814), but we're unsure whether some or all of the writing is in his hand. Later ownership signature in pencil of Howard B. Adelmann (1898-1988), American zoologist, embryologist, and historian of science who taught at Cornell from 1921-1963. He wrote the authoritative five-volume work, Marcello Malpighi and the Evolution of Embryology (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1966.)