Essays on physiognomy : for the promotion of the knowledge and the love of mankind / written in the German language by J. C. Lavatar, abridged from Mr. Holcrofts translation.

  • Lavater, Johann Caspar, 1741-1801.
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Essays on physiognomy : for the promotion of the knowledge and the love of mankind / written in the German language by J. C. Lavatar, abridged from Mr. Holcrofts translation. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Physiognomische Fragmente. English

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Boston : Printed for William Spotswood, & David West, [1794]

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6 unnumbered pages, 272 pages, vii, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : portraits (engravings) ; 17 cm (12mo)

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First American edition.

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Austin, R.B. Early Amer. med. imprints, 1130
Blake, J. NLM 18th cent., p. 258
Evans 27203
Wellcome cat. of printed books, III, p. 458
ESTC (RLIN) W32049

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Edition statement taken from the "Advertisement" which follows the engraved title page
Date of publication suggested by Evans
Title page and plates engraved by Samuel Hill
Plate I and the engraved title leaf (pi1) are conjugate
Signatures: pi1 A² B-U⁶ V⁶ W⁶ X⁶ Y⁴
NLM Copy 1: pp. 7-8 mutilated, affecting text.
Film 633 reel 59 is part of Research Publications Early American Medical Imprints collection (RP reel 59, no. 1130).

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Microfilm. [Bethesda, Md.] : National Library of Medicine, 1959. 1 microfilm reel : negative ; 35 mm

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