Phrenology (21 Ergebnisse)

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0. 8°. 56 p., 30 handwritten leaves. Red cloth binding, gilt title on front cover, gilt edges. - A phrenological delineation of Baroness Bückla Warr, November 1902. - Some tables bearing the stamp of Stackpool E. O'Dell. Binding dusty. Several marks in the text and additional handwritten notes to a table. Contents otherwise clean. Englisch Band.…

Hardcover. Zustand: VERY GOOD. First Edition. xi, 193pp. Frontispiece and b/w plates. 12mo, maroon cloth, white stamped lettering. Tips worn, spine rubbed with title lettering obscured, front hinge a bit shaken, text sound and clean.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition, Illustrated Edition. 8vo., vi, 78 pages, 4 engraved plates at rear, original blindstamped cloth with upper cover and spine titled in gilt. A generally VG+ clean, tightly bound copy of this scarce anonymous work on the hand. "The Hand Phrenologically Considered" by Anonymous is a scientific publication written in the mid-19th century. This work delves into the relationship between the mind and body, particularly focusing on how the shape and structure of the hand reflect various mental and physical characteristics of individuals. It explores theories around phrenology, which sought to correlate human behavior and personality traits with specific physical attributes. In this book, the author examines various forms of hands and their corresponding mental dispositions, arguing that the characteristics of one's hand-such as size, shape, and texture-can provide insights into temperament and cognitive abilities. The text categorizes hands into distinct types: elementary, sensitive, motive, and psychical, each linked to different stages of mental development and emotional capacity. The author draws from historical examples and contemporary observations, suggesting that the study of hand shapes can contribute to a broader understanding of human nature and individual differences, blending empirical study with philosophical inquiry.…

New York:: Samuel R. Wells, 1872. Series: The Phrenological Journal, January-June, 1872, vol. LIV, nos. 1-6. [Whole nos. 396-401 â" six issues]., 1872. 8vo. 76, 8; 77-148, 6, [2]; 149-218, 8, [2]; 219-288, [2], 8; 289-358, [4], 10, [10]; 359-424 pp. [p. 81 tear mended]. Generously illustrated, index; title-page is crudely affixed to textblock with cellophane tape, some minor tears to margins. Modern green gilt-stamped cloth. Original wrappers appear to be taped to inside of boards. June issue without Miscellany section or advertisements. Generally very good. Complete bound issues January to June 1872. The journal's mission was to educate a public who had yet to find, "an adequate conception of the real nature, the cogent evidence, and the vast importance of phrenology." Homespun wisdom combined with politics, agriculture, gossip, and the occult. These issues feature some marvelous essays, such as: "Your lips â" what they mean" â" "History of Photography in America" â" R.T. Trall, Small-pox and vaccination â"Sir Charles Bell, Expression â" Its anatomy and philosophy â" New intoxicants â" Inebriate Asylums, their utility â" Blushing â" The Case of Lawrence Sullivan, a victory for phrenology â" Fish culture in America â" Our horse cars, by Periwinkle â" Lord Brougham's Ghost â" How the Different Faculties Combine, etc. …

hardcover. Zustand: fine. First. 488 pages 8vo, rebound in black library buckram. Philadelphia: A. Waldie, 1839. First edition. Scarce.

1p, 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged, with thin strip of paper from mount adhering to the blank reverse. Refusing payment for his services, Spurzheim writes: 'Sat. Mg. | Dear Madam | We had agreed that I would give You my opinion as medical Man with the greatest pleasure as friend and not a practioner. I therefore take the liberty of returning the encolsed. I shall pass by to see our little patient on my way to Woodcroft. | I am, with best respects, | Dear Madame | Yours truly | Spurzheim.' 'Woodcroft' may be Woodcroft House in Northamptonshire, for which see Gentleman's Magazine, April 1813, or the village in Greenford. In either case the connection with Spurzheim is unclear, although he did visit Britain on several occasions. From the distinguished autograph collection of Richard Hunter, son of Ida Macalpine, whose collection of 7000 books relating to psychiatry is in Cambridge University Library. Macalpine and Hunter had a particular interest in the illness of King George III, and their book 'George III and the Mad Business' (1969) suggested the diagnosis of porphyria popularised by Alan Bennett in his play 'The Madness of George III'. A scarce autograph.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. 12mo. [3], viii-xii, [1], 2-319, [2], 2-4 (pages of publisher's advertisements), [2] pp. Later half sheep, polished and dyed green over marbled boards with the spine in five compartments, gold decorations and a maroon morocco label lettered in gold on the spine; all edges sprinkled. Later brown endpapers and pastedowns. With the original endleaves bound in. Cooter 238.47. Oxford DNB, L. S. Jacyna, "Combe [Comb], George (17881858)". A major figure in phrenology, Combe founded the Edinburgh Phrenological Society in 1820. Jacyna calls this book his most important and influential work, and records that it sold hundreds of thousands of copies throughout the nineteenth century. The Oxford DNB article notes that Combe's messages of individualism and his goal of improving the human condition resonated deeply with the reading public. Although Combe advocates certain problematic doctrines of phrenology, like a person's aptitude being determined by their brain shape and size, he also writes that those in lower-class upbringings can improve their fortunes with education and better societal treatment. He also advocates strongly for the end of capital and corporal punishment, and believes prison reform ought to be tailored towards a person's mind, not the punishment of their physical body. Finally, this publication drew criticism from the English clergy as the role of the divine is not at all discussed in the natural laws or in the human physiology that Combe outlines in his book. Combe instead offers a secular vision of how the world works and how it could be made better for human beings. A small chip to the spine label, a later bookplate on the front pastedown, an ink note on the free front endpaper.…

hardcover. Zustand: fine. First. 2 volumes. 8vo, rebound in black library buckram. Boston: Marsh, Capen & Lyon, 1834-1835. First Edition. Scarce. Articles from the Edinburgh, Paris & London phrenological journals and such original papers as may be selected and approved by the Bostin Phrenological Society. Volume 2 has the ownership signature of Wm. B. Fowle. who was on the committee of publication.…

Two pages, quarto. On a discoloured piece of brittle, thin wove paper, with some fraying, several closed tears and a little loss (affecting three words). A long, able and closely-written defence of the discipline. '[.] | X appears decidedly opposed to an alarmed at the science, and feels himself awfully degraded with the comparisons drawn by Phrenologists between the human species and the lower animals - that they should exist, breathe, and partake of, in a limited degree, corresponding qualities with the human race. [.] Neither do I believe that the cleverest Phrenologist will ever be able to tell the propensities or certain peculiarites of character to a single shade, as obstacles exist in Phrenologies as in other ologies'. Discusses of the 'structure of the human brain'. Concludes 'Was it not the will of the Deity that we should educate and improve our civilization and morality, he would not have endowed us with those qualities of reflection and research.' The celebrated coroner Thomas Wakley (1795-1862) had connections with Wiveliscombe, but given the nature of the piece it is unlikely to be his.…

SOLE EDITION, 8vo, pp. 36. Extracted from a volume. Lightly toned, a little staining to upper corner. Ownership inscription of John Forbes to title-page. A scarce anonymous pamphlet wading into the battle Sir William Stirling Hamilton (1788-1856) fought against the practitioners of phrenology. The author takes up Hamilton?s side against the pseudo-science but dismisses his methods. Hamilton had read two papers on the subject to the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1825 and 1826 from which the conclusion was that phrenological methods lead to moral barbarism and atheism; this pamphlet insists on challenging the factual basis of the system rather than its moral import. It may well have been influential on Hamilton, who five years later published another paper focussing exclusively on actual observations of the brain and their disproving of phrenological methods. This copy belonged to John Forbes, probably the second son of Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo.…

60pp. WITHOUT PLATE. 8vo. Zustand: Without wrappers. VG. 60pp. WITHOUT PLATE. 8vo. Struve was a leading figure in the initial stage of the German vegetarian movement. He had become a vegetarian in 1832 under the influence of Rousseau's treatise Émile Struve wrote the first German vegetarian-themed novel, Mandaras Wanderungen in 1833. He founded the Vegetarische Gesellschaft Stuttgart (Stuttgart Vegetarian Society) in 1868.He wrote the vegetarian book Pflanzenkost, in 1869. Historian Corinna Treitel has noted that Struve linked "vegetarianism to republican self governance." He was alos a phrenologist , He published 3 books on the subject.…

Zustand: Old folds. Very Good. 2 pages. Bifolium with address. 4to. George Combe was a Scottish lawyer, Phrenologist, founder of the Edinburgh Phrenological Society, author of The Constitution of Man (1828). 2 pages. Bifolium with address. 4to.

Zustand: Fine. One page, 7 lines. 1 vols. 12mo. Nahum Capen, the American apostle of phrenology, while visiting in London, receives this invitation from Andrew Combe, brother of George Combe, the English apostle: "I called to request your company on friday evening at seven o'clock, if not better engaged. We expect Mrs. H. Siddons." Mrs. Henry Siddons, with her brother William Henry Murray, were the Scottish Directors of the Theatre Royal of Edinburgh. Fanny Kemble mentions the three in her Memoir (L., 1879): "Mrs. Harry Siddons's intimate friends and associates were the remarkable brothers, George and Andrew Combe; the former a lawyer by profession, but known to the literary and scientific world of Europe and America as the Apostle of Phrenology, and the author of a work entitled 'The Constitution of Man.'" One page, 7 lines. 1 vols. 12mo.…

8vo, pp. 19, [1] blank, [of 24? but seemingly complete in itself], and without Part II 'Presenting a practical explanation of the science of phrenology' often bound together; with woodcut frontispiece; with numerous manuscript annotations throughout giving the character analysis, presumably in authorial hand; lightly browned throughout with some spotting and soiling, with small tear to gutter of first leaf; stitched as issued, retaining the original rear pink wrapper only, a little dog-eared. Variant issue of this brief phrenological analysis of one 'Mast. Jas. A. Garochty, age 7 y' by the noted Boston phrenologist John Fletcher. Fletcher gave evening lectures and offered private examinations and written descriptions of individuals' character and abilities. This appears to be a variant, possibly earlier issue. The copies on OCLC call for pp. 23 for this first part, and indeed a digitised copy located at Stanford confirms this. However on comparison it shows two additional paragraphs have been added towards the end of the work, together with a small woodcut diagram, these revisions possibly done to coincide with the publication of 'Part II', providing a 'Practical explanation of the science of phrenology'. The typesetting on the present example is much more condensed. Offered here is Part I only, with some copies on OCLC noting both parts bound together. Fletcher had published a longer 176 page work on the subject, under the title, 'The Mirror of Nature, presenting a practical illustration of the Science of Phrenology, accompanied by a Chart' in 1838. OCLC seems to locate no copies of this shorter, assumed earlier variant, citing copies of the longer variant of Part I at Loyola Marymount, UCLA, Brown University and Michigan.…

4to (ca. 185 x 254 mm). French manuscript on paper. 4 pp. (a bifolium), including two full-page ink drawings of a human head and its phrenological brain areals. - Accompanied by a quantity of correspondence by and from the circle of the French lawyer Jean-Baptiste-Jacques Élie de Beaumont (1732-1786): 11 letters by various hands, a total of 31 pp., mostly 4to, several on bifolia, dated 11 Oct. 1777 - 22 March 1785. An early phrenology manuscript entitled "On Phrenology: Table of the faculties of intelligence, according to the doctrine of Dr Gall". The manuscript shows three ink sketches of a human head, two smaller ones from the front and the back, as well as a larger sketch in profile, on all of which the 27 brain areals are marked which were claimed to perform different cognitive functions. The images are directly modelled after Gall's own drawings. Each brain areal is described on the back of the page. For example, number 6, located on the upper edge of the back of the head, is (according to phrenology) responsible for "sentiments des grandeurs, instinct d'elevation, amour du pouvoir, de la domination, de l'autorité, du despotisme, amour de l'indépendance, sentiment du grandiose, de sublime, sentiment de sa propre dignité, estime de soi-même, fierté, orgueil, arrogance, dédain, présumption" ("Feelings of grandeur, instinct for elevation, love of power, domination, authority, despotism, love of independence, feeling of the grandiose, of the sublime, feeling of one's own dignity, self-esteem, pride, arrogance, disdain, presumption"). Number 24, on the other hand, located right above the eyes, is the root of the "sentiment des personnes, mémoire des physionomies, amour des portraits" ("feeling for people, memory of physiognomies, love of portraits"). The manuscript closes with a short biography of Franz Joseph Gall. - The Baden-born physiologist Gall (1758-1828) studied medicine in Strasbourg and Vienna. The theory of phrenology, which he coined at the turn of the 19th century, posits that the human head contains twenty-seven different organs whose size and composition provide insights into a person's character. While phrenology is today regarded as pseudo-science, Gall was the first to formulate the theory of functional specialization, now the basis of modern neuroscience. - Includes a collection of letters by Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont and Jean-Antoine-Élie de la Poterie to each other and other family members on such varied topics as academic work, appointments, or contract notes about lent money or books. Élie de Beaumont was a French Protestant lawyer who was elected a member of the Royal Society in 1765 for his role in the Calas affair, a 1762 dispute between Protestants and Catholics in France. His brother, Jean-Antoine-Élie de la Poterie (1735-94), was a military physician and scholar in la Manche and Paris.…

Paris, F. Scholl, H. Nicolle, 1809. Large 4to. Bound uncut in contemp. (original ?) boards. A nick at bottom of spine. Scratches to coverpaper at top of spine, along fronthinge and lower right corner on frontboard. Stamps on title-page. (4),VII,277,(1) pp. and 1 lithographed plate with 5 figs. showing the brain. Some scattered brownspots, mainly on the first few leaves. Scarce first edition of the monograph which initiated the new science of "Phrenology". Here they introduced in print the idea of the cerebrum as a collection of organs with different psychological functions, and focused the attention on the functions of the cerebral cortex. Broca regarded Gall's work on phrenology as "the starting point for every discovery in cerebral physiology in our century". The phrenological doctrine, with its suggestion of localization of the functions of the brain, gave a great impetus to the neurological sciences."The first publication of importence is the mémoire presented by Gall and Spurzheim as candidates for election to the Insitur de France: Recherches. 1809 (the item offered). The mémoire was presented on March 14, 1808, and a committee of five, including Pinel, with Cuvier as chairman, was appointed to examine the researches and the doctrine. Whether Napoleon actually interfered is nor certain, althugh it is plain that he was opposed to the doctrine. Cuvier's long negative report of fifty-two pages is cautious and conservative, and shows that his commitee realized that it was dealing with with a difficult and controversial matter." (Edwin G. Boring). …