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Essays on physiognomy

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Lavater, Johann Caspar, 1741-1801
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Title Essays on physiognomy : designed to promote the knowledge and the love of mankind / written in the German language by John Caspar Lavater, and translated into English by Thomas Holcroft.
Additional Titles One hundred physiognomonical rules
Edition 5th ed.
Contributors Gessner, Georg, 1765-1843
Publisher London : W. Tegg
Creation Date 1848
Notes Translation of: Physiognomische Fragmente.
Accompanied by the author's: One hundred physiognomonical rules and Memoirs of the life / compiled principally from The life of Lavater by G. Gessner.
Extent cxxviii, 507 p., 80 leaves of plates : ill., ports
23 cm.
Language English
National Library system number 990012830330205171

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