Essays on physiognomy : designed to promote the knowledge and the love of mankind / written in the German language by John Caspar Lavater ; and translated into English by Thomas Holcroft ; to which are added one hundred physiognomonical rules, a posthumous work by Mr. Lavater and Memoirs of the life of the author compiled principally from The Life of Lavater, by G. Gessner.

  • Lavater, Johann Caspar, 1741-1801.
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Essays on physiognomy : designed to promote the knowledge and the love of mankind / written in the German language by John Caspar Lavater ; and translated into English by Thomas Holcroft ; to which are added one hundred physiognomonical rules, a posthumous work by Mr. Lavater and Memoirs of the life of the author compiled principally from The Life of Lavater, by G. Gessner. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Physiognomische Fragmente. 1850

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London : William Tegg and Co., 1850.

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cxxviii, 507 pages, 81 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm (8vo)

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Seventh edition /

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Translation of Physiognomische Fragmente
Includes index
Copy 1 Note: Binding: Original blind-stamped cloth. From the BMA library.

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