Add this copy of Essays on Physiognomy; for the Promotion of the to cart. $44.87, good condition, Sold by Anybook rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lincoln, UNITED KINGDOM, published by Robinson, Paternoster Row.
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No date but circa 1789. Full contemporary 18th century leather binding with gilt tooling on spine. Binding I general good condition with slight wear on hinges. Internally clean. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Frontis plus 7 engraved plates. Frontis, title page, advertisement leaf, 4pp of contents, then 275 pp. Some very small marks and slight scuff on front cover. A nice period copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 450grams, ISBN:
Add this copy of Essays on Physiognomy; for the Promotion of the to cart. $50.00, very good condition, Sold by The Book Bin rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Salem, OR, UNITED STATES, published 1804 by C. Whittingham for H. D. Symonds, et al.
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C. Whittingham for H. D. Symonds, et al
Published:
1804
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English
Alibris ID:
16157556957
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Very Good. 1804, second edition. Written by John Caspar Lavater, translated from the German by Thomas Holcroft. Text in English. 242 pages. Volume one of a four-volume set; this item is for volume one ONLY. Brown half-leather with gilt titles and decoration at spine, marbled paper boards. Boards scratched and edgeworn with frayed edges; leather rubbed and moderately edgeworn, with heavy rubbing to spine tips, points of fraying at fore-edge corners. Spine square. Binding sound. Heavy foxing to first and last few pages, with prior owner's name inked to fly leaf and dated 1816. Interior else clean, with light toning to pages and very sparse foxing through text, but otherwise free of markings.
Add this copy of Essays on Physiognomy; for the Promotion of the to cart. $125.00, good condition, Sold by Lloyd Zimmer Books & Maps rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Chanute, KS, UNITED STATES, published by G. G. J. & J. Robinson.
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Good. No Jacket. 12mo. No date of publication, though circa 1790; 295 pages, plus 6 plates. Calf spine cover with red leather name label; Gilt lettering is a little worn, though legible; Marbled paper covers; Worn around edges and at spine ends; Old, very small, catalogue listing pasted to blank front free end page; A few inked names, etc. on blank end pages; Three leaves, including title page, advertisement, and first contents page have been trimmed about one half inch along top, not affecting any text or images; First published in German, this edition is abridged from the M. Holcrofts translation; 295 pages, though misnumbered as 275; Six plates; Very minimal foxing, and a very little offsetting onto leaves opposite plates; Otherwise, contents are very clean, bright, and intact; Volume remains tight.
Add this copy of Essays on Physiognomy; for the Promotion of the to cart. $340.00, fair condition, Sold by Sequitur Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Boonsboro, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1789 by London: G. G. J. And J. Robinson.
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Fair. 3 volume set. Contemporary 3/4 calf binding with marbled boards. Top leather compartment of vol. 1 and 2 chipped off. Bindings attenuated, all boards attached, but tenuous. Internally very good. Scattered toning. Illustrated by three hundred and sixty engravings that show the methods of physiognomy. The Swiss philosopher Johann Kaspar Lavater repopularized the pseudoscience of physiognomy. Physiognomy is the assessment of people's character based on their outer appearance, particularly their facial features. While criticized by some contemporary writers, physiognomy was enjoyed widespread popularity in the 18th and 19th centuries. The roots of the genocidal impulses of the 20th century rest in the intellectual of foundations physiognomy. Writer Hannah More wrote to Horace Walpole that "In vain do we boast...that philosophy had broken down all the strongholds of prejudice, ignorance, and superstition; and yet, at this very time...Lavater's physiognomy books sell at fifteen guineas a set." (The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 4, Eighteenth-Century Science, ed. Roy Porter) Refs: Garrison-Morton 154 (1772 unillustrated original edition in German). ESTC T139902. This is an oversized or heavy book that requires additional postage for international delivery outside of Canada and the US.
Add this copy of Essays on Physiognomy for the Promotion of the to cart. $350.00, Sold by Old Book Shop of Bordentown rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Bordentown, NJ, UNITED STATES, published by G.J.J. & J. Robinson.
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G.J.J. & J. Robinson
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G.J.J. & J. Robinson
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English
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N.d. (ca. 1790). First edition in one volume, abridged from Holcroft's translation from the German. 16mo. in original full tree calf, spine ornately stamped in gilt and with gilt-lettered black leather spine label. 2 blanks, engraved frontispiece of six portraits (Durer, Moncrif, Dr. Johnson, Shakespeare, Sterne, S. Clarke); title; (2) advertisement; (4) contents; 275; 2 blanks. VII numbered plates (including frontis as Plate I). Some foxing to the frontis and title and a bit to the plates otherwise text is clean and tight. Front pastedown bears the bookplate of Oscar Sutro, prominent California lawyer and Standard Oil executive as well as published Shakespearean scholar (d. 1935), as well as a small Oakland, Ca. vintage bookseller's ticket. Worn about the edges of the leather and at the outer hinges, shallow loss at hear edge of spine and some cracking to the spine strip; all gilt still bright. 16mo-over 5¾"-6¾" tall.
Add this copy of Essays on Physiognomy; for the Promotion of the to cart. $600.00, very good condition, Sold by Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A. rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from New York, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1789 by London: Printed for G.G. J. and J. Robinson.
Publisher:
London: Printed for G.G. J. and J. Robinson
Published:
1789
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
11364613921
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Very Good. 3 volumes, 8vo (231 x 137mm). Vol. I: [vi], 241pp., [1 blank]; Vol. II: [iv], 324pp., [1 blank]; Vol. III: [vi], 314pp., [10]. 360 engraved plates. Contemporary cloth backed in morocco; (light foxing and light toning throughout; spines rubbed with some loss, few scuffs). Garrison-Morton, 154. Wellcome III, 458. Johann Kaspar Lavater was a Swiss poet and physiognomist. In 1769, Lavater took Holy Orders and was a famed orator welcomed with enthusiasm on his journeys throughout Germany. The two principal sources from which Lavater developed his physiognomical studies were the writings of the Italian polymath, Giambattista della Porta, and the observations made by Sir Thomas Browne in his Religio Medici (translated into German in 1748 and praised by Lavater).
