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Medical botany

Medical botany by Stephenson & Churchill

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Seller: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc.
Title
Medical botany
Author
Stephenson & Churchill
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Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description
London: John Churchill, 1831. Stephenson & Churchill, Medical Botany. 4 vols. in 2, 8vo. Unpaginated. 186 attractive hand-colored botanical plates (numbered 1-185, plus an unnumbered plate of "Atropa belladonna" in Vol. I). 19th cent. half calf, marbled boards, a little rubbed. Minor foxing and offsetting from plates, but a very good set. Ownership signature, dated 1871, on endpaper. First edition. A very handsome series, including the Dublin pharmacopeia, which was not used for Woodville's botany. The handsome hand-colored plates make a very good impression next to more celebrated works by Sowerby, Edwards, etc. See G-M 5740 for Stephenson, who was the first to be operated on by Roux for cleft palate, and who first described the operation in his thesis of 1820. Churchill was the great pioneer of acupuncture in England; see Lu & Needham, "Celestial Lancets," pp. 297-99. Nissen 1891. Pritzel 8946. .
Fine pastel portrait of the composer by Copmann after the 1828 pastel portrait by Christian Horneman (1765-1844). Signed with the artist's initials "PC" and dated 1832

Fine pastel portrait of the composer by Copmann after the 1828 pastel portrait by Christian Horneman (1765-1844). Signed with the artist's initials "PC" and dated 1832 by [KUHLAU, Friedrich 1786-1832]. Copmann, Peter 1794-1850

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Fine pastel portrait of the composer by Copmann after the 1828 pastel portrait by Christian Horneman (1765-1844). Signed with the artist's initials "PC" and dated 1832
Author
[KUHLAU, Friedrich 1786-1832]. Copmann, Peter 1794-1850
Seller
J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
Description
51 x 42 cms. (20 x 16.5"). Canvas over wooden board. A sensitive portrait of the composer, blind in his right eye since childhood, depicted head-and-shoulders, turned right, wearing a blue coat and white-collared shirt. Some minor wear and smudging but in very good condition overall. "Together with C.E.F. Weyse he was the foremost representative of the late Classical and early Romantic periods in Denmark. ... Unlike Weyse, the other principal Danish composer of the period, Kuhlau was extrovert and modern. His style contains many elements of the Danish musical tradition but is mainly cosmopolitan. A conspicuous feature is his parody technique, in which themes, passages and sometimes whole movements by other composers function as a catalyst for his own compositions. However, Kuhlau has his own distinctive artistic character, and his best works - the piano, flute and chamber music and the dramatic works, including several masterly overtures - exerted a profound influence on Danish music during the rest of the 19th century." Gorm Busk in Grove Music Online Hornemann, a Danish painter of pastels and miniatures, was known mainly for his portraits. He was the father of Johan Ole Emil Hornemann (1809-1870) and grandfather of C.F.E. Hornemann (1840-1906), both composers. Of Danish origin, Copmann worked in Copenhagen and as an itinerant portrait and landscape painter in Hamburg and Dresden, Germany. He immigrated to the U.S. in ca. 1834 and was active in Brooklyn, New York (1834); Charleston, South Carolina (1834-35); in New Orleans (1837); and in Louisville, KY (1848). Rutledge: Artists in the Life of Charleston, 154, 177. Encyclopaedia of New Orleans Artists, 86. Artprice Website A highly attractive portrait of this important Danish composer by a Danish-born artist working in the U.S. in the first part of the nineteenth century.
Foxes [California Girls] (Original screenplay for the 1980 film)

Foxes [California Girls] (Original screenplay for the 1980 film) by Adrian Lyne (director); Gerald Ayres (screenwriter); Jodie Foster, Scott Baio, Sally Kellerman, Randy Quaid, Cherie Currie (starring)

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Foxes [California Girls] (Original screenplay for the 1980 film)
Author
Adrian Lyne (director); Gerald Ayres (screenwriter); Jodie Foster, Scott Baio, Sally Kellerman, Randy Quaid, Cherie Currie (starring)
Seller
Royal Books (United States)
Description
N.p.: N.p., 1977. Early First Draft script for the seminal 1980 film, here under the working title "California Girls." Copy belonging to uncredited crew member Jim Brown (no relation to the actor, we suspect), with his name in manuscript ink on the title page. A bleak, seminal coming-of-age drama about four teenage girls grappling with their families, drugs, and relationships in Los Angeles in the late 1970s. Adrian Lyne's directorial debut. Shot on location in San Fernando, Hollywood, and Los Angeles, California. Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present, dated Nov. 28, 1977, noted as First Draft, with credits for screenwriter Gerald Ayres. 138 leaves, with last page of text numbered 137. Xerographiic duplication, with the exception of the title page which is a carbon typescript copy, rectos onl. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, bound with two gold brads. McPadden, Heavy Metal Movies. McPadden, Teen Movie Hell.
Prelude to a Million Years: A Book of Wood Engravings

Prelude to a Million Years: A Book of Wood Engravings by Ward, Lynd

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Title
Prelude to a Million Years: A Book of Wood Engravings
Author
Ward, Lynd
Seller
Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
New York: Equinox Cooperative Press, 1933. First edition. Very good. SIGNED. Octavo [23 cm] rebound in half brown sheep with raised spine bands over textured red boards, with gilt titles and backstrip decoration. 1" tear to front joint near foot, rubbing to extremities, else very light wear; foil bookseller's label on rear pastedown, light foxing throughout. A story told entirely via wood engravings by the author. This edition was limited to 920 signed and numbered copies, of which this is an out-of-series copy. Signed on the limitation page by Lynd Ward. This is the fourth of six wordless novels that Ward produced between 1929-1937. Dance 008.
Gallery of Illustrations for Shakespeare's Dramatic Works

Gallery of Illustrations for Shakespeare's Dramatic Works by SHAKESPEARE, William

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Title
Gallery of Illustrations for Shakespeare's Dramatic Works
Author
SHAKESPEARE, William
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Heritage Book Shop, LLC (United States)
Description
Philadelphia: Gebbie & Barrie, Publishers, 1874. Full Description: [SHAKESPEARE, William]. The Gallery of Illustrations for Shakespeare's Dramatic Works. Originally Projected and Published by John Boydell. Reduced and Re-Engraved by the Heliotype Process With Selections from the Text. Edited by J. Parker Norris. Philadelphia: Gebbie & Barrie, Publishers, 1874. In the 25 original parts. Large quarto (14 3/8 x 11 1/4 inches; 365 x 286 mm). xvi pp Each part with 4 heliotype engraved plates for a total of 100 engraved plates. Each plate accompanied by a leaf of text from the corresponding play. A title-page and preliminary pages are found split between parts 24 and 25. Part 25 with a message to the subscriber about publisher's binding options. We could find not other copy at auction in the original parts. Each part in publisher's original blue printed wrappers. Wrappers are are a bit brittle and with some tears to a few. Internally all leaves and engravings are extremely clean. Housed together in a cloth clamshell. Very good. The front wrappers read: "The Boydell Shakespeare. Now First Reproduced by the Heliotype Process from the Original Plates Accompanied by Selections from the Text of the Dramas Illustrating Each Scene Represented by the Painter." This selection of 100 illustrations is taken from 200 plates engraved from 170 paintings contained in Boydell's illustration of Shakespeare's Works, and the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery. "Any lover of Shakespeare, desiring to possess an original copy of Boydell's great work, (if willing to pay the now almost fabulous price required for a brilliant copy-would have to wait and watch perhaps for years; and those who do not care to invest so much, will find in the present publication, a repro-duction, faithful in all its details, somewhat reduced in size-a necessary step to bring the book within the reach of the many thousands who desire such a work-but, to many, really preferable from its greater portability. The work will contain 100 plates, all of which are perfect studies, in every variety of grouping and composition, and every human expression faithfully delineated. There will be 25 parts, imperial 4to. size, each part containing 4 plates, with text, from that edited by Clark & Wright, under the supervision of J. Parker Norris, Esq., who also contributes to this work an Essay on the Genius of the Painters and Engravers of Boydell's Shakespeare. The parts will be published at ONE DOLLAR each, thus offering to the American public, for twenty-five dollars, a reproduction (about one-half the scale) of what was originally published at $1,000 gold, at a cost of $5,000,000 gold, and the pecuniary ruin of the celebrated originator. John Boydell. (From the Prospectus) Jaggard, pg 542. Shaksperiana,. HBS 69575. $1,500.
Master Humphrey's clock.

Master Humphrey's clock. by Dickens, Charles.

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Master Humphrey's clock.
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Dickens, Charles.
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Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
London: Chapman and Hall, 1840-41. First edition in book form. Very Good. Octavo (26 cm); three volumes bound as one. Later half calf over cloth by Williams Book Shop, Detroit. Few scuffs and bumps to binding. Contents very good indeed. Contents include "The Old Curiosity Shop" and "Barnaby Rudge," among others.
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The Plays, Histories, and Novels of the Ingenious Mrs. Aphra Behn. With Life and Memoirs. [Six volumes, complete]. by Behn, Mrs. Aphra.

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The Plays, Histories, and Novels of the Ingenious Mrs. Aphra Behn. With Life and Memoirs. [Six volumes, complete].
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Behn, Mrs. Aphra.
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Lighthouse Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
London: John Pearson, 1871. Facsimile reprint of the Third Edition, 1734-35. Six volumes, complete. Octavo, 3/4 polished calf & marbled boards (hardcover, leather), top edges gilt, uncut. Frontis portrait. Very Good; spine gilt somewhat dull, some cover scuffing, title page of Volume I is torn near gutter but remains in tact. In general, the books are clean and tight.
The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets; with Critical Observations on their Works. A New Edition Corrected

The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets; with Critical Observations on their Works. A New Edition Corrected by Johnson, Samuel

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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets; with Critical Observations on their Works. A New Edition Corrected
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Johnson, Samuel
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De Wolfe and Wood (United States)
Description
London: C. Bathurst, J. Buckland, W. Strahan, et al., 1783. Third edition Spines replaced An attractive set Third edition in four volumes.
The Famous Suwanee River Quartette [cover title]

The Famous Suwanee River Quartette [cover title] by [African Americana]: [Music]

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The Famous Suwanee River Quartette [cover title]
Author
[African Americana]: [Music]
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The Joe Fay Company LLC (United States)
Condition
Good.
Description
[Philadelphia, 1920. Good.. [4]pp. on a single folded sheet. Quarto. Tanned and somewhat brittle, minor edge chipping, some short closed edge tears. A seemingly unrecorded promotional touting the talents of the now-obscure Famous Suwanee River Quartette. The group, formed in Cleveland, Ohio around 1910 and led by John Gantt, traveled extensively for almost fifteen years, and became especially well-known for their rendition of "Old Black Joe," which is mentioned here. The present pamphlet, a most ephemeral item, advertises the group with press releases, reviews, "recent press comments," descriptions of the musical strengths of Gantt as well as the other performers as a whole. The text claims that "Mr. Gantt is entitled to supremacy in this field...he is a master interpreter of the songs, melodies, and folk lore of the Southern Negro." The work is illustrated with photographs of the musicians with their instruments on both the front cover and the internal two-page spread. No copies in OCLC.
[SIGNED] [GENEALOGY] EARLY AMERICAN FAMILIES: SIDES, SPACH, NADING, ROMINGER, LONGWORTH, FOLTZ, ROTHROCK, SHOAF, VOGLER

[SIGNED] [GENEALOGY] EARLY AMERICAN FAMILIES: SIDES, SPACH, NADING, ROMINGER, LONGWORTH, FOLTZ, ROTHROCK, SHOAF, VOGLER by Roxie Sides

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[SIGNED] [GENEALOGY] EARLY AMERICAN FAMILIES: SIDES, SPACH, NADING, ROMINGER, LONGWORTH, FOLTZ, ROTHROCK, SHOAF, VOGLER
Author
Roxie Sides
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Black Swan Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition
Very Good binding
Description
Winston-Salem, N. C.: Self-Published, 1963. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. 8vo.; pale green cloth with titling in gold, and with dustjacket; xiii, [2], 3-140 pages, followed by several blank leaves (though blank, they are undoubtedly intended for the reader to make notes); with wood cut illustrations; printed in black and green; this copy is signed with a personal inscription by Miss Sides on the front free endpaper. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket.
¡Patria o Muerte! The Great Zoo and Other Poems

¡Patria o Muerte! The Great Zoo and Other Poems by Guillén, Nicolás; Robert Márquez (ed. and trans.)

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¡Patria o Muerte! The Great Zoo and Other Poems
Author
Guillén, Nicolás; Robert Márquez (ed. and trans.)
Seller
Arthur Fournier Fine & Rare (United States)
Description
First Thus. 223 pp., offset on commercial stock in stiff printed wrappers with flaps and identical printed dust jacket. Text in Spanish and English. 8vo. Very good. Light shelf wear to jacket, mostly to top edge near spine. [2405] This particular book by the acclaimed Afro-Cuban poet seems to have been published in a few different editions, with different publishers and cover designs, in the span of a few years. This edition "specially dedicated to English-speaking African readers," according to jacket flap copy. This copy with title page inscription, signature, and drawing from the author to noted feminist, activist, and publisher Florence Howe, dated 1978 in Havana.
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Hard Candy. A Book of Stories by Williams, Tennessee

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Hard Candy. A Book of Stories
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Williams, Tennessee
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Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books (United States)
Description
New York: New Directions, 1954. First edition. Cloth backed boards, fine copy in slightly used slipcase. The slipcase is the second greyish blue one. Crandell A13.1.a.
The Heads of the Poets. Eighteen in Number--of Which Seventeen Have Not Been Hitherto Published... with Introduction by Thomas Wright

The Heads of the Poets. Eighteen in Number--of Which Seventeen Have Not Been Hitherto Published... with Introduction by Thomas Wright by Blake, William. [Wright, Thomas]

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The Heads of the Poets. Eighteen in Number--of Which Seventeen Have Not Been Hitherto Published... with Introduction by Thomas Wright
Author
Blake, William. [Wright, Thomas]
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John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller (United States)
Description
1925. Olney, Bucks.: The Blake Society, 1925. 4to, [24] pages. Six plates, additional illus. Original wrappers. Wrappers a bit soiled and worn. Very good. § One of 100 numbered copies. A scarce item from the eccentric Wright - not located in Bentley but probably there somewhere.
Midnight's Angels

Midnight's Angels by Richards, Tony

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Midnight's Angels
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Richards, Tony
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Brenner's Collectable Books (United States)
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Fine
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Ashland, OR: Dark Regions Press, 2011. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo., 337pp. Beautiful Unread Signed and Limited First Printing. #4 of only 100 copies published. Square tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Equally attractive unclipped dust jacket, ($45.00), is fresh and bright with no creases, chipping or tears. Signed by the author on the limitation page. A pretty collectable copy of an uncommon title at a great price.
Murder in Waiting

Murder in Waiting by Richardson, Robert

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Murder in Waiting
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Richardson, Robert
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Brenner's Collectable Books (United States)
ISBN
9780312064662
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Fine
Description
New York: St Martins Press, 1991. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo., 192pp. Beautiful Unread Stated First US Edition, First Printing with full number sequence, Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Equally attractive unclipped dust-jacket, ($16.95), is fresh and bright with no chipping, creases, toning or tears. A gorgeous collectable copy.
The Captive in Patagonia or, Life Among the Giants.

The Captive in Patagonia or, Life Among the Giants. by Bourne, Benjamin Franklin.

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The Captive in Patagonia or, Life Among the Giants.
Author
Bourne, Benjamin Franklin.
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Ten Pound Island Book Co. (United States)
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Bourne was captured enroute to the California gold fields. His sprightly narrative deals mostly with South America and its nativ
Description
Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1853.. Bourne was captured enroute to the California gold fields. His sprightly narrative deals mostly with South America and its natives, but he did ship out on various craft, one of which was a whaler, "the ship Hudson, Captain Clift, of Mystic, Connecticut - a whaling vessel, just from the Falkland Islands."Imagine my surprise at discovering there actually was a whaler of this name with Clift as captain, homeported in Mystic and bound for the Falkland Islands, 1848-1852! See Lund, 6828. I've had copies of this book before, but I think this is an unusual configuration, in that it contains 28 pages of product advertisements by publisher Gould and Lincoln. Bound as issued in blindstamped brown cloth with gold spine lettering. Top of backstrip repaired, else a very good copy.. 11.5 x 19 cm. (16 publisher's ads), xxiv-233, (12 publisher's ads) pp. b/w frontispiece and plates
Mansfield Park (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Mansfield Park (Penguin Clothbound Classics) by Austen, Jane; Sutherland, Kathyrn

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Mansfield Park (Penguin Clothbound Classics)
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Austen, Jane; Sutherland, Kathyrn
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Yesterday's Muse Books (United States)
ISBN
9780141197708
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Fine
Description
New York: Penguin Classics, 2008. Reprint. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. 5x1x8. Reprint. Brand new from publisher. 2008 Hard Cover. l, 507 pp. Edited, with introduction and notes, by Kathryn Sutherland, introduction by Tony Tanner. Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mansfield Park, acutely aware of her humble rank and with her cousin Edmund as her sole ally. During her uncle's absence in Antigua, the Crawford's arrive in the neighbourhood bringing with them the glamour of London life and a reckless taste for flirtation. Mansfield Park is considered Jane Austen's first mature work and, with its quiet heroine and subtle examination of social position and moral integrity, one of her most profound.
Perceptual Modification: Adapting to Altered Sensory Environments FIRST EDITION

Perceptual Modification: Adapting to Altered Sensory Environments FIRST EDITION by Welch, Robert B.

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Perceptual Modification: Adapting to Altered Sensory Environments FIRST EDITION
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Welch, Robert B.
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Underground Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780127418506
Condition
Good
Description
New York: Academic Press, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/good. First Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xv, 346pp. Book presents nicely with unclipped dust jacket encased in protective archival sleeve. Wear to jacket with rubbing, toning, creasing, and chipping to covers, corners, and edges. Several 1/2" closed tears to edges of jacket. Rubbing, toning, and bumps to covers, corners, and edges of gray cloth over boards. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Previous owner's name in ink to front paste-down. Light toning to endpapers. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Perceptual Modification: Adapting to Altered Sensory Environments is about the study of human perception using a particular research strategy: the systematic alteration of vision or audition. It is assumed that by observing how the sensory apparatus copes with this disturbance it will be possible to formulate valuable hypotheses about the structure and development of "normal" perception and perceptual-motor coordination. The specific goals of this book are, first, to organize the vast and confusing literature on adaptation to perceptual rearrangement and, second, to assess its contribution to the understanding of "normal" perception and perceptual learning. The book begins with discussions of adaptation to small prism-induced displacements of the visual field. Separate chapters follow on the proposition that adaptation to prismatic displacement and other forms of rearrangement is actually a form of learning; adaptation to inverted and reversed vision; optical tilt; illusory motions of the visual field; size-depth distortions; and distortions of form. Subsequent chapters deal with studies of auditory rearrangement; examine individual and interspecies differences in adaptability; and the study of adaptation to the visual distortions encountered by the underwater observer. The book is written for researchers and graduate students in experimental psychology. It will be of value and interest whether the reader is a specialist in the area of perceptual modification, or indeed a generalist.(Publisher).

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