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Lot 207

Sale 5505 - American Furniture, Decorative & Folk Art
Apr 19, 2016 6:00AM ET
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Group of books on phrenology and related subjects 19th century

Including Bell, John and Charles. Anatomy and Physiology of the Human Body…and The Anatomy and Physiology of the Brain and Nerves, The Organs of the Senses and the Viscera. (New York: Collins and Co., 1817); Bridges, Frederick. Popular Manual of Phrenology, (London: George Philip and Son, 1860); Colby, Benjamin. A Guide to Health, Being an Exposition of the Principles of the Thomsonian System of Practice...(Milford, NH: John Burns, 1846); Fletcher, J. The Mirror of Nature Presenting a Practical Illustration of the Science of Phrenology (Boston: Cassady and March, 1838); Fowler, O.S. Fowler's Practical Phrenology... (1845); Kidd, John. On the Adaptation of External Nature to the Physical Condition of Man… (Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1836); Manual of Phrenology: Being an Analytical Summary of the System of Dr. Gall, on the Faculties of Man and the Functions of the Brain (Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1835); Mill, James. Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind. (London: Baldwin and Cradock, 1829); Minor, Democritus. The Anatomy of Melancholy... (Philadelphia: J.W. Moore, 1854); Noble, Daniel. Elements of Psychological Medicine: Being an Introduction to the Practical Study of Insanity. (London: John Churchill, 1855); Smith, Samuel Stanhope. An Essay on the Causes of the Variety of Complexion and Figure in the Human Species… (New Brunswick: J. Simpson and Co., 1810); Struve, Gustav. Handbuch der Phrenologie (Leipzig: F.U. Brodhaus, 1845); Watts, Isaac. The Improvement of the Mind; or A Supplement to the Art of Logic… (London: Strahan and Preston, 1804); and Wells, Samuel R. New Physiognomy or Signs of Character, as Manifested through Temperament and External Forms...(New York: Fowler and Wells, 1866). .

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