A Small Ivan Pavlov/Paul Yakovlev Collection

Various, 1925. Hardcover. Pavlov, Ivan Dvadtsatiletnii Opyt Obektivnogo Izucheniia Vysshei Nervnoi Deiatelnosti (Povedeniia) Zhivotnykh. Uslovnye Refleksy. Sbornik Statei, Dokladov, Lektsii i Rechei [Twenty Years of Objective Study of the Higher Nervous Activity (Behavior) of Animals. Conditioned Reflexes. A Collection of Articles, Reports, Lectures, and Speeches]Leningrad/Moskva: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo, 1925.Third edition, 1 of 5000 copies; 6 1/4" x 9 1/4"; pp. [5], 4-397, [3]; rebound in red cloth over boards; brown morocco label with gilt lettering to spine; uniform age-toning to text block; page edges a bit brittle with two small chips to fore-edge of first free page; last leaf (publisher's advertisements) with some loss of paper to lower margin; illustrated with black & white drawings; overall very good condition. A beautiful association copy from Nobel Prize winner physiologist Ivan Pavlov, known for his work on classical conditioning, to his pupil - Harvard educator and a world-renowned neuropathologist in his own right Paul Yakovlev. The book is signed: "Ot avtora" ("From the author") on the title page. On the front pastedown Yakovlev has taped a photograph of himself seated with Pavlov with a quote, in Russian and in English, of their topic of discussion at the time the photo was taken: "Subcortive ganglia actuate the cerebral cortex." A second copy of the same photograph is loosely laid in the book. A third photo of aging Pavlov is taped to the first free page. The front endpaper bears Yakovlev's signature and a lengthy note: "This is personal copy of Prof. Ivan Petrovich Pavlov with a notation in his own hand: "from the author." Sent to me in Paris from Leningrad in the Spring of 1924 before the publication date in 1925. I cannot account for this." Two Yakovlev stamps are present - one is his own personal "Dr. Paul I. Yakovlev" in red ink on first free page and a second one: "Yakovlev Collection, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, DC" is on the title page. Numerous notes and drawings in Yakovlev's hand are scattered throughout the book. Together with:Yakovlev, Paul and Halloran, Roy Collected Lectures of the Seventh Postgraduate Seminar in Neurology and Psychiatry Including A Review Course in Military Neuropsychiatry. October 3, 1941 - April 10, 1942 [In 3 Volumes]Waltham, Mass.: Privately printed by the authors, 1942.First edition (first, second, and third semesters); 5 1/2" x 8 1/2"; vol. I pp. [3], II-VI, 1-250, [2], vol. II pp. [4], III-VI, 1-309, [2], vol. III pp. [3], II-VI, 1-528; cloth-backed paper over boards; gilt title to spines; a bit of rubbing and wear to tips of spine and corners; pages clean; very good condition.Personal copies of Paul Yakovlev's own lectures, volume III bears a note in his hand: "Paul Yakovlev personal copy, not to be removed from his library." Each one of the volumes has a: "Yakovlev Collection, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, DC" stamp to the title page. A newspaper clipping of an article on: "Neuropsychiatrists in the Army," dated in Yakovlev's hand is loosely laid in volume I. Several marginal notes and drawings are present throughout volume III.