The Work of the Digestive Glands.

PAVLOV, Ivan.

$1,500.00

Item Number: 136462

London: Charles Griffin & Company, 1902.

First edition in English of Pavlov’s best-known work, A Printing and the Mind of Man selection. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine. Translated by William H. Thompson. Presentation copy, inscribed by Thompson, the translator, “To Miss Marian Hooker, March 17, 1905, W. H. T.” The recipient, Marian Osgood Hooker was a physician and photographer whose works were of the architecture of rural Italy. In very good condition. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed.

Pavlov summarized the era of his work on digestive physiology leading up to the description of psychic secretions in a collection of nine lectures. These lectures were transcribed and eventually translated by William H. Thompson in 1902. The Work of the Digestive Glands collected in writing most of the work that would earn Pavlov a Nobel Prize in 1904.