A view of the elementary principles of education, founded on the study of the nature of man.

SPURZHEIM, Johann Gaspar.

Edité par Boston, Marsh Capen and Lyon, 1832., 1832

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8vo, pp. xii, 318; some foxing, else a good copy in contemporary pink cloth, faded, joints tender but holding firm, very slightly cocked; printed spine label, inkspots to spine.First American edition, 'revised and improved by the author, from the third London ed.'; first published in Edinburgh in 1821. A typically eccentric work by the German phrenologist Spurzheim including observations on development of the brain, drawn in part from the study of ancient cultures. The section on the education of women is particularly odd, including the observation that Mary Wollstonecraft is, in many ways, 'like a man'. Spurzheim travelled from his native Germany to Great Britain, where his works were published, and eventually to America, where his ideas were received with spectacular enthusiasm. He died in Boston in November 1832 of typhoid fever, the year in which this edition was published, having presumably seen it coming off the press, and was buried by an adoring Bostonian crowd.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: A view of the elementary principles of education, founded on the study of the nature of man.
• Éditeur: Boston, Marsh Capen and Lyon, 1832.
• Date de parution: 1832
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: Edition originale