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BRUYÈRES (Hippolyte). La Phrénologie, le geste et la physionomie démontrés par 120 portraits, sujets et compositions. Paris, Aubert et Cie, 1847. In-4 dark blue half-chagrin, spine with ornate nerves (period binding). Complete with 90 plates out of text. Curious work following the works of the founders of phrenology Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828) and his disciple Johann Gaspar Spurzheim (1776-1832); the painter Hippolyte Bruyères being none other than the son-in-law of the latter. Head cover damaged, some rubbing, small scattered brown spots.
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BRUYÈRES (Hippolyte). La Phrénologie, le geste et la physionomie démontrés par 120 portraits, sujets et compositions. Paris, Aubert et Cie, 1847. In-4 dark blue half-chagrin, spine with ornate nerves (period binding). Complete with 90 plates out of text. Curious work following the works of the founders of phrenology Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828) and his disciple Johann Gaspar Spurzheim (1776-1832); the painter Hippolyte Bruyères being none other than the son-in-law of the latter. Head cover damaged, some rubbing, small scattered brown spots.
