Description
Nouvelle édition, corrigée et disposée dans un ordre plus méthodique [...]
par M. Moreau.
Paris, Prudhomme; 1806-1809
10 volumes, complete set
With a total of 603 engravings, mostly on plates (some of them fold-out) and others in the text (many with protective tissue paper),
many printed in sepia and some in several colors.
Original red half-leather binding with gilt spines.
- Goedeke IV.1, 263f. Kippenberg 583. Schulte-Strathaus 109, 77e. Wellcome III, 459. Brunet III, 887. -
Second French edition, vastly expanded from (and much preferable to) the first, which had appeared in 1781-1803 in a mere four volumes.
The set is considered one of the finest illustrated works of its time.
It was in 1775 that the Swiss poet and theologian Lavater (1747-1801) had first gained widespread fame as well as notoriety through his "Physiognomic Fragments for the Promotion of Human Knowledge and Human Love" (published in English as "Essays on Physiognomy" in 1789).
His instructions on how to recognize traits of character by facial and body features contributed to the popularity of silhouette portraits in Germany during the second half of the 18th century. His theory of physiognomy - which he had first set out in 1772 in a slender volume - was vigorously discussed by contemporaries, among them Lichtenberg, Goethe, and Humboldt.
Famous artists such as Daniel Chodowiecki, Johann Rudolph Schellenberg and Johann Heinrich Lips supplied him with illustrations.
A good, wide-margined copy, including the frequently missing index volume (10) by Sue.
- ("Edition d'un usage beaucoup plus commode que la precedente").
Very good condition, minor wear of bindings
Small folio. Size 8 3/4 by 11 3/4"
Text in French
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1806 ESSAYS on PHYSIOGNOMY by LAVATED 10 VOLUMES illustrated ANTIQUE
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