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Lot 224

Sale 5505 - American Furniture, Decorative & Folk Art
Apr 19, 2016 6:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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$800 - 1,200
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$400
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Group of assorted phrenology books, pamphlets and ephemera 19th and 20th century

Including Bridges, Frederick. Phrenology Made Practical and Popularly Explained (London: Sampson, Low, Son & Co., 1857); Coates, James. How to Read Heads and Faces (Philadelphia: David Mckay Company, [1930s]); Faciology (Chicago: Donohue, M.A. & Co., [1890s]); Fraser, Joseph. How to Read Men as Open Books (Melbourne: A.H. Massina & Co, [1890s]); Frith, Henry and Ed. Heron Allen. Palmistry (Cleveland: Arthur Westbrook Company, 1915); various phrenological charts, including ones by John Cowan, J.A. Fowler, J. Stanley Grimes, Morton M. Newcomb, A. O'Leary, M. Tope , C. Townsend, Daniel Watson, Edward Z. Wickes, and L & H.L. Williams; a boxed psychological test: Szondi-Test, Verlag Hans Huber (Switzerland: 1949); a boxed board game: The Fortune Teller Nobody Home? Consult the Phrenologist Who Knows (Branford, CT: H.J. Phillips Company); two sets of playing cards and a stamp.

9 3/4 in. x 7 1/2 in. (game)

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