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Essai sur la physiognomonie : destiné a faire connoître l'homme & à le faire aimer / par Jean Gaspard Lavater ...
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Folio BF843 .L32 1781 pt.1-3
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lavater, Johann Caspar, 1741-1801.
- Language:
- French
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Physiognomy--Early works to 1800.
- Physiognomy.
- Penn Provenance:
- McKenzie, R. Tait (donor) (bookplate)
- Physical Description:
- 4 volumes : illustrations, portraits ; 35 cm
- Place of Publication:
- La Haye : [publisher not identified], [1781]-1803.
- Notes:
- Dedicatory epistle in pt. 1 dated 1781.
- Colophon: pt. 1-3, A la Haye : Imprimé chez Jaques van Karnebeek; pt. 4, Imprimé chez Hendrik van Teeckelenburgh.
- Pt. 4 has imprint: A la Haye : Chez I. Van Cleef, 1803.
- "Materially altered French Version" published by Lavater as his 3rd "recension" of "J.C. Lavater von der Physiognomik, Leipzig, 1772. Lavater's 2d recension, "virtually the 1st ed. of the real work" has title: Physiognomische Fragmente. See Bibliotheca Osleriana, nos. 3176-3180.
- Includes indexes.
- Errata: pt. 1, p. [295]; pt. 2, p. 404.
- Local Notes:
- Pt. 4 wanting.
- OCLC:
- 11164164
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