Rare Autograph, Photograph and Manuscript Auction
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Henry Havelock Ellis, known as Havelock Ellis (2 February 1859 – 8 July 1939), was an English physician, writer, progressive intellectual and social reformer who studied human sexuality. He was co-author of the first medical textbook in English on homosexuality in 1897, and also published works on a variety of sexual practices and inclinations, as well as transgender psychology. He is credited with introducing the notions of narcissism and autoeroticism, later adopted by psychoanalysis. Ellis studied what today are called transgender phenomena. Together with Magnus Hirschfeld, Havelock Ellis is considered a major figure in the history of sexology to establish a new category that was separate and distinct from homosexuality. He served as president of the Galton Institute and, like many intellectuals of his era, supported eugenics.
This is an important hand written manuscript from His 1921 book On Life and Sex Essays of Love & Virtue. It is 11 pp. 4to Chapter ll The Place of the Grandparents. It was originally sold by the noted autograph dealer Walter Benjamin in 1972.
Henry Havelock Ellis Original Manuscript
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