Essai sur la physiognomonie des corps vivans, considérée depuis l'homme jusqu'a la plante.

8vo: [4]-viii-295 pp. (some spotting and browning).

Contemp. calf, triple gilt fillet on covers (rubbed, corners bumped and rubbed), flat gilt orn. spine (joints rubbed, starting to split), red edges.

Rare first edition on the supposed art of assessing a person's character or personality from their outer appearance by the French surgeon and anatomist J.J. Sue (1760-1830). Ill. with one fold. table.
Ref. BnF. - Blake 438. - Wellcome V:210. - COPAC.
Prov. Bibliothèque de M. Roederer (armorial bookpl.).