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Traité de phrénologie humaine et comparée : accompagné d'un magnifique atlas in-folio de 120 planches, contenant plus de 600 sujets d'anatomie humaine et comparée ... / par J. Vimont.
Vimont, Joseph, 1795-1857.Date: [1835?]-1836- Ephemera
Try your bumps : buy Hudson's soap in dozens.
R.S. Hudson Limited.Date: [1910?]- Pictures
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Bazile and Bartolo, characters from a story by Beaumarchais, representing the phrenological 'propensity' of secretiveness. Steel engraving by Geoffroy, 1847, after H. Bruyères.
Bruyères, Hippolyte.Date: [1847]Reference: 27616i- Books
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How to read heads and faces / by James Coates.
Coates, James, 1843-1933.Date: [1937?]- Books
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Descriptive mentality from the head, face and hand / by Holmes W. Merton.
Merton, Holmes W. (Holmes Whittier), 1860-Date: [between 1900 and 1909]- Archives and manuscripts
Physiognomy and Phrenology
Date: 1827Reference: MS.5465/2Part of: Physiognomy and Phrenology- Pictures
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Three perspectives of a skull sectioned and labelled according to an unorthodox system of phrenology. Pen drawing, 18--.
Date: 1806Reference: 27670i- Pictures
Phrenological chart, with list of 35 faculties. Wood engraving with letterpress, written by E.T. Craig, 1836.
Craig, Edward Thomas, 1804-1894.Date: 1836Reference: 27747i- Books
Descriptive mentality from the head, face and hand / by Holmes W. Merton.
Merton, Holmes W. (Holmes Whittier), 1860-Date: [1896]- Books
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George Stevens's celebrated lecture on heads : which has been exhibited upwards of three hundred successive nights to crowded audiences, and met with the most universal applause.
Stevens, George Alexander, 1710-1784.Date: [1770?]- Books
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Observations on the phrenological development of Burke, Hare, and other atrocious murderers : measurements of the heads of the most notorious thieves confined in the Edinburgh Jail and Bridewell ... presenting and extensive series of facts subversive of phrenology / read before the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh by Thomas Stone.
Stone, Thomas, M.D.Date: 1829- Pictures
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A servants' employment agency where prospective employees are having their heads phrenologically examined as to their suitabililty. Coloured etching by W. Taylor.
Taylor, W, active approximately 1840.Reference: 11849i- Pictures
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A phrenologist examines two skulls from his collection. Reproduction of an etching by H. Daumier.
Daumier, Honoré, 1808-1879.Reference: 16220i- Pictures
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Skull of a Caribbean person: side view. Lithograph by Engelmann after C.P. Mazer.
Mazer, Carl Peter, 1807-1884.Reference: 28078i- Pictures
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Two sections of the brain, divided into different lobes and faculties, according to Hollander's system of phrenology. Pen drawing, c. 1902.
Date: 1902Reference: 27965i- Archives and manuscripts
George Nugent Grenville, second Baron Nugent of Carlanstown (1788-1850)
George Nugent Grenville, second Baron Nugent of Carlanstown (1788-1850)Date: 1845Reference: MS.9220- Ephemera
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Phrenological chart : designed to illustrate the treatise on phrenology, in the "Imperial journal of the arts and sciences".
Date: [approximately 1865?]- Pictures
Franz Joseph Gall leading a discussion on phrenology with five colleagues, among his extensive collection of skulls and model heads. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1808.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.Date: 1808Reference: 11834i- Ephemera
Electors' inquest on the political body of Robert Palmer esq. M.P. for Berks. : On Saturday the 3rd Nov. an inquest was holden at the Town-Hall, Maidenhead, before Pascoe Grenfell, esq. one of the political coroners for the county of Berks.
Date: [between 1830 and 1839?]- Pictures
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Head showing the 'convolutions' (lobes) of the brain. Pen drawing after R. W. Reid.
Reference: 28366i- Pictures
Human skull seen from below and above. Grey wash drawing, c. 1789.
Date: c. 1789Reference: 29321i- Pictures
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Human skull: frontal view. Lithograph, c. 1835.
Reference: 28129i- Pictures
A head divided in two, the left half showing activities numbered 1 to 42. Lithograph by Frank Ellis, 1901.
Ellis, Frank.Date: 1901Reference: 583321i- Books
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The celebrated lecture on heads / by George Stevens. With a new frontispiece. Price six-pence. [A notice of the publication of the work and of others by J. Pridden].
Stevens, George Alexander, 1710-1784.Date: [1766?]- Pictures
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A man with a large, protruding head walking with a heavy gait; illustrating the reflective faculty in phrenology. Steel engraving by A. Devrits, 1847, after H. Bruyères.
Bruyères, Hippolyte.Date: [1847]Reference: 27624i