Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to Promote Knowledge and Harmony Among Mankind. and Illustrated with Upwards of Four Hundred Profiles and Sketches; To Which is Added a Posthumous Work of the Learned Author, Containing One Hundred Physiognomical Rules, and Also a Memoir of Lavater

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Contemporary gilt-ruled red calf, gilt-stamped lettering in black leather spine label, gilt-stamped ornament direct in spine compartments (5 ornately gilt-ruled raised bands); 8vo; pp. cxxviii, 507, plus frontispiece portrait and 80 plates. Spine just a touch darkened; some tiny scuff marks along joints and edges of boards. Prelims and terminals foxed, otherwise internally bright and clean. An excellent copy, in a lovely binding. Two additional, contemporary plates have been neatly clipped from another edition of Lavater, and laid-in ("A Portrait" and "Indolence and Drunkenness").

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Título

Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to Promote Knowledge and Harmony Among Mankind. and Illustrated with Upwards of Four Hundred Profiles and Sketches; To Which is Added a Posthumous Work of the Learned Author, Containing One Hundred Physiognomical Rules, and Also a Memoir of Lavater

Editor

William Tegg n.d. (c. 1860), London

Fecha de publicación

1860

Encuadernación

Hardcover

Edición

Fifteenth edition.

Estado

Very Good+

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• Medicine and Health