Phrenology exemplified and illustrated, with upwards of forty etchings: being scraps No. 7, for the year 1837

by Johnston, D[avid] C[laypoole]

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Boston: D. C. Johnston, 1837. Second edition, oblong folio, pp. 19, [1]; 4 engraved plates containing 39 illustrations, near fine in original printed brown wrappers. A satire of a phrenological text, pontificating on the many virtues of secretiveness, order, amativeness, benevolence, firmness, and so on, each with an accompanying caricature..... More

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