The pocket Lavater, or, The science of physiognomy : to which is added, an inquiry into the analogy existing between brute and human physiognomy, from the Italian of Porta : embellished with 44 copperplate heads.

  • Lavater, Johann Caspar, 1741-1801.
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The pocket Lavater, or, The science of physiognomy : to which is added, an inquiry into the analogy existing between brute and human physiognomy, from the Italian of Porta : embellished with 44 copperplate heads. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Physiognomische fragmente. English

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New-York : Published by Van Winkle & Wiley, 1817.

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v, 2 unnumbered pages, 4-140 pages, 36 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portrait (engravings) ; 15 cm

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Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 1131
Shaw & Shoemaker 41232

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The main work is "a translation from the French of the Pocket Lavater ... which ... in France ... has run through successive and repeated editions." - p. [iii] The second edition was published in Paris in 1808 under title: Le Lavater portatif, ou Précis de L'art de connaître les hommes par les traits du visage. The original was abridged from the French edition of Lavater's Physiognomische fragmente which was published in Paris in 1806-07 under title: L'art de connaître les hommes par la physionomie
"Comparison of man with other animals" (extracts translated from the second book of Porta's De humana physiognomonia): p. [99]-137
Film 633 reel 59 is part of Research Publications Early American Medical Imprints collection (RP reel 59, no. 1131).

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Microfilm. [Bethesda, Md.] : National Library of Medicine, 1959. 1 microfilm reel : negative ; 35 mm

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