Physiognomy (14 résultats)

Etat : Very Good. 21 pages, 3 figures. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 13 x 17 cms. Category: Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Etat : Very Good. 39 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 18 x 26 cms. Category: Quarterly Review; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Etat : Very Good. 41 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 16 x 24 cms. Category: Edinburgh Review; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Etat : Very Good. 13 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 13 x 20 cms. Category: Annual Register; Printed before 1800; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Etat : Very Good. 13 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 16 x 23 cms. Category: Cornhill Magazine; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Etat : Very Good. 10 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 16 x 23 cms. Category: Cornhill Magazine; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Etat : Fine. The book is in fine condition.

Etat : Fine. The book is in fine condition.

Etat : Fine. The book is in fine condition.

Etat : Fine. The book is in fine condition.

hardbound. Etat : Good. First Edition 1780 - anonymous work, published shortly after the influential texts on Physiognomy by Johann Lavater, and largely expanding on Lavater's ideas; frontispiece, and 9 full-page engravings; text block untrimmed; half-leather, six compartments, five raised bands, title label to spine; speckled boards; 2 x former owner's names (front endpaper and title page), toning/browing to some pages, o.w. generally Good throughout with no significant marks or flaws; boards edgeworn and rubbed and with mild scuffing, corners worn; split to leather along spine. no dustwrapper. 359pp. 8vo. Good. b&w illustrations (illustrateur). …

Tall thick 8vo. xxxi, [1], 1203, [1] pp. With 380 text woodcut engravings. Burgundy-coloured ribbed publisher's cloth, gilt lettering on spine (minor shelfwear, slight dustsoiling, very slightly shaken), still VG copy from the libraries of Lena M. Everett (1882-1976) wife of longtime Tacoma retail merchant Walter Everett w/ ownership marking on ffep., and Eleanore Weinstock. Seventh edition, revised, of this posthumously published and very popular reference on physiognomy, originally published under the title "A System of Practical and Scientific Physiognomy" (1889) by this intrepid California woman who prepared this work after marry San Francisco Argonaut's business manager Andrew Palmer Stanton (1837-1917). By the issuance of this version, F.A. Davis Co. emphasizes the advantages to using Physiognomy in order to "win success in the business world," and how they can use adherents can use these systems to change habits, develop character, and aid in health, disease, and longevity. Mary Stanton (1837-1914) was a specialist in Phrenology, who had developed her practice originally while tutoring and serving as a nannie to newspaper publisher Horace Greeley's children, after her second husband Jesse Hanks died leaving her and her four children destitute when his family seized the assets. She became a suffragette, was associated with both Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, as well as Emmeline Pankhurst in the Suffrage movement, and also attended the first delegation to the California legislature to ask for women's right to vote.…

Utrecht/ Amsterdam, C. van der Post, 1859, 1st ed., 94 pag., origineel glanspapier geel omslag met 3 houtsnede gezichtsprofielen. = Zeldzaam.

FIRST EDITION, half-title (listing prices in boards vs 'neatly bound'), engraved allegorical frontispiece 'Truth Sacrificed to the Muses', occasional figures within the text; frontispiece offset to title, final quire a little spotted and soiled (two pages lightly stuck together), but generally very clean, pp. xii, 216, untrimmed in publisher's blue boards, pale backstrip with printed paper label; rather rubbed and scuffed, early ms. to upper cover and repeating red stamp (also at half-title), good. The sole printing of this work of physiognomy for artists, which lifts the main principles from the work of popular Swiss physiognomist Johann Caspar Lavater (1741-1801) and French anatomist Jean-Joseph Sue (171092) and publishes them under 'Lavater Sue and Co'. The Monthly Review of 1801 was dismissive: 'The Duchess of Devonshire will probably not be flattered by a dedication from non-entities and the public will look with eyes askance on a publication that comes in so questionable shape'. Yet however opportunistic (and plagiaristic), these short essays are unintentionally amusing: 'the mouth is an opening across the face'; 'a Dutchman's skull is rounder'; 'the bee revels in luxury', and contain some quite ingenious attempts to describe animal forms using only minor typographical tools. An unsophisticated copy in original boards, scarce with the half title.…