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Essays on physiognomy : for the promotion of the knowledge and the love of mankind. / Written in the German language by John Caspar Lavater, and tr. into English by Thomas Holcroft.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection BF843 .L313 1804 v.2-3 v.2 v.3,pt.1 v.3,pt.2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lavater, Johann Caspar, 1741-1801.
- Standardized Title:
- Physiognomische Fragmente. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Physiognomy.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gest, Lillian (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 3 volumes : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition Illustrated by four hundred and eighteen engravings ... To which are added one hundred physiognomonical rules, a posthumous work by Mr. Lavater, and memoirs of the life of the author, compiled principally from the life of Lavater, written by his son-in-law G. Gessner.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed by C. Whittingham, for H. D. Symonds [etc.], 1804.
- Notes:
- Translation of: Physiognomische Fragmente.
- Local Notes:
- Imperfect: vol. 1 wanting.
- Vol. 3 in 2 parts.
- OCLC:
- 4424485
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