Gall, Franz Joseph (1758-1828), phrenologist

Notes on phrenological lectures by F J Gall, taken at Paris in 1810. Inscription on original spine 'Dr Gall's Lectures at Paris 1810' seen before acquisition, but damaged at auction and no longer legible after purchase. Fragmentary label on former front cover '-le House, -lisbury.'

1810

199 ff. 1 volume: 240 × 184 mm., Rebound, 1989.

Christie's 16 October 1985, lot 74.

The initials 'JR', probably those of the note-taker, follow an interpolation on f. 155r. The handwriting closely resembles that of James Roberton, a Paris-based doctor whose bequest to the Edinburgh Phrenological Society became a cause célèbre, (cf. a Roberton letter of 1836, National Library of Scotland MS. 7241, f. 40).

Database description transcribed from Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine, 1999).