Phrenology, in connexion with the study of physiognomy. Part I. Characters all published

by M. D Spurzheim, aspar

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First edition

London: Treuttel, Wurtz, and Richter, 1826. First edition in English, large 8vo, pp. 9 , 2-191, 1 ; uncut; 34 lithograph plates showing 82 portraits including Descartes, Nero, Melancthon, several popes, and many others; green cloth-backed paper-covered boards; front hinge starting, covers rubbed, paper spine label perished, otherwise very good. Johann Gaspar Spurzheim 1776-1832 was a German physician who expanded upon Franz Joseph Gall's system of

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