LA PHRENOLOGIE.
Le geste et la physionomie demontres par 120 portraits, sujets et compositions graves sur acier. Dispositions innes - etudes sur l'expression. Application du systeme phrenologique a l'observation des caracteres. Aux relations sociales, a l'education, a la legislation, a la domesticite. Par Hte Bruyeres, peintre, beau-fils du Docteur Spurzheim. [Text in French]. Pp. iv+516+[4](last blank), 90 engraved plates, most with tissue guard; cr. 4to; half green leather, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, marbled papered boards, worn, spine faded and grazed, joints tender; marbled edges; patterned endpapers, bookplate on upper pastedown, hinges cracked, the upper hinge broken, a few pages loose and at least one plate neatly reinserted, several tissue guards browned, scattered light foxing and soiling; Aubert et Cie, Paris, 1847. First edition. Wellcome II, p. 259. *All plates are present, but a couple are not in correct order. German physician Johann Gaspar Portheim (1776-1832) was one of the chief proponents of phrenology in the early nineteenth century. Hippolyte Bruyeres was his stepson. Item #148450
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