Sigmund Freud: first edition of his first published paper

The beginning of an illustrious career:
Sigmund Freud's first paper,
rare first edition in original wrappers

Sigmund Freud's first published work, rare first edition

Published when he was just 21 years old, "Freud's second piece of student research, on the function of the large Reissner cells in the spinal cord of primitive fish Petromyzon, was assigned to him by Professor Ernst Brücke, head of the Institue of Physiology in Vienna, where Freud had been admitted in the fall of 1876. Freud showed that the Reissner cells 'gave rise to the root-fibres of the posterior roots'" (Standard edition III, p.228).

FREUD, Sigmund. "Über den Ursprung der hinteren Nervenwurzeln im Rückenmark von Ammocoetes (Petromyzon Planeri)," pp. 15-27, In: Sitzungsbericht der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, LXXV, III Abtheilung. January-May 1877. Vienna: Karl Gerold's son, 1877. Octavo, original blue wrappers, uncut and partially unopened. Custom cloth box. $2300.

First edition in original wrappers of Freud's first published paper.

One lithographed folding plate accompanying Freud's article, other plates throughout. Light foxing, minor soiling to wrappers. An exceptional copy of a fragile item, most rare in original wrappers.