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Essays on Physiognomy for the Promotion of the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind
by Lavater, J.C
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Bordentown, New Jersey, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: G.J.J.& J. Robinson. Full Leather. N.d. (ca. 1790). First edition in one volume, abridged from Holcroft's translation from the German. 16mo. in original full tree calf, spine ornately stamped in gilt and with gilt-lettered black leather spine label. 2 blanks, engraved frontispiece of six portraits (Durer, Moncrif, Dr. Johnson, Shakespeare, Sterne, S. Clarke); title; (2) advertisement; (4) contents; 275; 2 blanks. VII numbered plates (including frontis as Plate I). Some foxing to the frontis and title and a bit to the plates otherwise text is clean and tight. Front pastedown bears the bookplate of Oscar Sutro, prominent California lawyer and Standard Oil executive as well as published Shakespearean scholar (d. 1935), as well as a small Oakland, Ca. vintage bookseller's ticket. Worn about the edges of the leather and at the outer hinges, shallow loss at hear edge of spine and some cracking to the spine strip; all gilt still bright. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- E4897
- Title
- Essays on Physiognomy for the Promotion of the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind
- Author
- Lavater, J.C
- Format/Binding
- Full Leather
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- G.J.J.& J. Robinson
- Place of Publication
- London
- Keywords
- Physiognomy, Medicine, Health, Philosophy
- Bookseller catalogs
- shakespeare;
Terms of Sale
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
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About the Seller
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
Biblio member since 2005
Bordentown, New Jersey
About The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown is a general used/rare bookshop open to the public Tues.-Sunday 11AM to 5PM (8 PM on Fridays). 10,000 books on premises with another 25,000 in stock. Areas of speciality include baseball, New Jersey, American literature, mysteries. Member, ABAA, ILAB,Antiquarian Booksellers of New Jersey. Located in historic Bordentown City, New Jeresy (est. 1682).
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- Gilt
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- Calf
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- Tight
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- Spine
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- Spine Label
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- First Edition
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- G
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
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