1959 Aberrations of Sexual Life after the Psychopatia Sexualis

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Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

First published in Great Britain in 1951. A medico-legal study for doctors and lawyers , being the 'Psychopathia Sexualis' of Dr Rv Kraft-Ebing brought up to date by Alexander Hartwich. Translated from the German by Arthur Vivian Burbury. 

'Psychopathia Sexualis' is a study by Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing (1886), known as one of the first texts about sexual pathology and one of the earliest works on homosexuality and bisexuality; it had great influence on continental European forensic psychiatry. The book was controversial at the time, arousing the anger of the church in particular

With unclipped dust wrapper. 

From the library of Desmond Morris, a zoologist best known for his 1967 sociobiological work ‘The Naked Ape’. Alongside achieving great acclaim as a zoologist, Morris was also known for being an ethnologist and surrealist painter, and for popular television programmes, including ‘Zoo Time’.