Sigmund FREUD

First edition of the French translation by Marie Bonaparte, one of 70 numbered copies on pur fil, the only deluxe paper copies.

Covers slightly and marginally toned, otherwise a handsome and rare copy.

The text is preceded by a translation of the short story Gradiva by Wilhelm Jensen, rendered by E. Zak and G. Sadoul.

It is followed by a psychoanalytic study of the dream and the fascination experienced by the young archaeologist Norbert Hanold for the image of a young woman sculpted in a bas-relief from the collections of the Museum of Rome.

Original photographic portrait of Sigmund Freud, in silver print made later by Engelman from the original negative.

After the Night of Broken Glass, the young Jewish photographer Edmund Engelman (1907-2000) fled to the United States leaving behind his precious but compromising negatives of his clandestine photography. He did not recover them until after the Second World War, in 1952, from the psychoanalyst's daughter Anna Freud.
Handwritten inscription signed by photographer Edmund Engelman in the lower margin of the photograph: “à Nadine Nimier Cordialement Edmund Engelman” (“To Nadine Nimier Sincerely Edmund Engelman”).
Nadine Nimier was...

First edition of the French translation, one of the numbered copies on chestnut paper.

Spine and boards faintly and marginally sunstruck, as often; small tears to the head and tail of the spine; minor pale dampstaining to the lower edge of the upper cover.

First edition of Jacques Lacan's doctor­al thesis. The most precious of the 20 known copies gifted by the author. The copy's existence was hitherto only ev­idenced by the thanks Sigmund Freud sent Lacan after receiving it.

Exceptional association copy inscribed by Jacques Lacan: “Au Professeur Sig­mund Freud, père de la nouvelle psy­chiatrie, à laquelle je voudrais avoir contribué un peu par cet ouvrage, bien que j'aie dû m'y exprimer trop souvent en fonction de l'ancienne./en témoi­gnage de mon immense admiration,/Jacques Lacan / le 3 janvier 1932 [sic]” [”To Professor Sigmund Freud, father of the new psychiatry, to which I would like to have contributed a...

First edition in French, translated by Marie Bonaparte, one of 65 numbered copies on pur fil paper, the only large copies.
Elegant half black morocco over marbled paper boards by P. Goy & C. Vilaine, spine in six compartments, gilt date at foot of spine, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, covers and spine preserved (lower cover discolored at foot, spine sunned), top edge gilt.
A few small spots.
A handsomely bound copy. 

First edition in French, translated by Marie Bonaparte, one of 65 numbered copies on pur fil paper, the only large paper copies.
Elegant half blue morocco over marbled paper boards by P. Goy & C. Vilaine., spine in six compartments, gilt date to foot of spine, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, covers and spine (sunned) preserved, top edge gilt.
Occasional insignificant spotting.
A handsomely bound copy.