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ABERCROMBIE, John. Inquiries concerning the Intellectual Powers and the Investigation of Truth. Edinburgh: Waugh and Innes. 1830.

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ABERCROMBIE, John. Inquiries concerning the Intellectual Powers and the Investigation of Truth. Edinburgh: Waugh and Innes. 1830.

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xv[i], 435[1] pp; untrimmed. Original cloth, rubbed and partly faded, paper label to spine, recased. First edition.

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ABERCROMBIE, John. Inquiries concerning the Intellectual Powers and the Investigation of Truth. Edinburgh: Waugh and Innes. 1830.

xv[i], 435[1] pp; untrimmed. Original cloth, rubbed and partly faded, paper label to spine, recased. First edition.

Presentation copy, inscribed on half-title With best Compts. From the Author. With the bookplate of Ferguson of Raith. John Abercrombie (1780-1844), physician, was educated at Marischal College Aberdeen, and went on to study medicine at Edinburgh. Abercrombie's knowledge of nervous diseases led him to an interest in mental problems and in 1830 he published a work on the intellectual powers and the application of logical methods to science ... The work was extremely popular and a number of editions appeared. The causes of this popularity were, no doubt, partly the numerous cases set forth of peculiar mental phenomena, whose detailed record made a dry subject easy and entertaining reading ... D.N.B.

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Author	ABERCROMBIE, John.