Live auction - Lot 624
[Physiognomony]
Dissertation sur les variétés naturelles qui caractérisent la physionomie des hommes des divers climats et des différens ages suivie de réflexions sur la beauté [...].
Paris, Francart, 1792
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120
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Lot description
4to: 8-168 pp.; 11 pl.
Contemp. half sheep, flat spine (corners and spine def.).
French translation of the Dutch "Natuurkundige verhandeling over het verschil in de wezenstrekken" (1791) by the Dutch physician and naturalist in the Age of Enlightenment P. Camper (1722-1789). Ill. with 11 fold. engr. pl.
Ref. BnF. - Cp. Blake 76, Wellcome II:293.