ESSAYS ON PHYSIOGNOMY for the Promotion of Knowledge and the Love of Mankind - Second Edition.To Which are Added One Hundred Physiognomical Rules .and Memoirs of the Life of the Author

Language: English

Published by Symonds, Walker, Vernon and Hood, Cuthell and Martin, London, 1804

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Second edition with additions, Association copy Viscount Monk (first Governor General of the Dominion of Canada). Three volumes bound as four. octavo, full calf, hinges cracking but most secure, surfaces cracked and spine decoration and titles worn, generally internally clean and bright and text blocks secure and tight, marbled end papers, ribbon markers. Plates printed one side only with very occasional offsetting to pages where heavily printed plates bound opposite text pages. Volume 1: book plate of Viscount Monk on front end paper water stain on portrait frontis piece and off-setting to title page, Memoirs of the Life of Lavater, cxlix then 242 pages with108 plates printed one side only. Volume 2: [2] then 324 pages with 115 plates. Volume 3: part 1 [6] then 272 pages with some illustration in text and 62 plates. Volume 4 (Volume 3 part 2): [2] then 399 pages and 10 unpaginated of index with 161 plates. This is a heavy set (4.45 kg net weight) and will require additional for postage/shipping. [QH] [QP].…

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Title
ESSAYS ON PHYSIOGNOMY for the Promotion of Knowledge and the Love of Mankind - Second Edition.To Which are Added One Hundred Physiognomical Rules .and Memoirs of the Life of the Author
Author
LAVATER, John Caspar (Johann Kaspar Lavater) (translation - Thomas Holcroft)
Publisher
Symonds, Walker, Vernon and Hood, Cuthell and Martin, London
Publication year
1804
Condition
Good
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
Edition
2nd Edition
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Portman Rare Books

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