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Sale 470 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
Nov 2, 2016
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(ANATOMY) DENNY, D'ARCY
[Phrenology and psychology: a plan of a human head of good shape for a standard type, showing some thirfty faculties of human nature, all located from bone]. Biggin Hill, Kent, circa 1930.Broadside, featuring an engraved map of the soul, with minor loss at faint vertical fold and general wear. Unframed.Denny, who also published a work against permanent taxation, apparently was a reformer in the late phase of phrenology, arguing here that "quality is a greater factor in intelligence than size." One copy recorded at the British Library.
