Live auction - Lot 706
[Physiognomy]
La physiognomonie ou l'Art de connaitre les hommes d'après les traits de leur physionomie [...]. Illustrée de 750 gravures [...]. Traduction nouvelle par H. Bacharach [...]. Précédée d'une notice par A. d'Albanès.
Paris, Gustave Havard, [1845]
€ 150 / 200
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Lot description
8vo: xvi-320 pp.; 120 pl. (title repaired, some usual spotting).
Later maroon shagreen signed by Parent J.J., spine with 4 raised bands, marbled endpapers.
Later edition of the French translation by Bacharach of Lavater's (1741-1801) most well-know work on the idea that physiognomy related to the specific character traits of individuals, rather than general types. Ill. with 120 pl. totalling 750 engr. depicting heads, silhouettes, facial details of humans and animals etc.
Ref. BnF.
Prov. Doodling in pencil on last few pp. drawing heads and noses next to the morphological and physiognomical explications.