The Pocket Lavater; or, The Science of Physiognomy: To which is added an inquiry into the analogy existing between brute and human physiognomyPorta, Giambattista della
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The Pocket Lavater; or, The Science of Physiognomy: To which is added an inquiry into the analogy existing between brute and human physiognomy
Porta, Giambattista della
Physiognomy
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[Illustration: T. G. LAVATER.]
THE
POCKET LAVATER,
OR,
THE SCIENCE OF PHYSIOGNOMY:
TO WHICH IS ADDED,
AN INQUIRY
INTO THE
ANALOGY EXISTING BETWEEN BRUTE AND HUMAN PHYSIOGNOMY,
FROM THE ITALIAN OF PORTA.
Embellished with 44 Copperplate heads.
_NEW-YORK_:
Published by Van Winkle & Wiley.
1817.
_Southern District of New-York, ss._
BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the first day of May, in the forty-first year
of the Independence of the United States of America, VAN WINKLE & WILEY,
of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book,
the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words and figures
following, to wit:
“The Pocket Lavater, or, the Science of Physiognomy. To which is added,
An Inquiry into the Analogy existing between Brute and Human
Physiognomy, from the Italian of Porta. Embellished with 14 Copperplate
heads.”
IN CONFORMITY to the act of Congress of the United States, entitled, “An
act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps,
charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during
the times therein mentioned,” and also, to an act entitled, “An act,
supplementary to an act, entitled, an act for the encouragement of
learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the
authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein
mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing,
engraving and etching historical and other prints.”
THERON RUDD.
Clerk of the Southern District of New-York.
ADVERTISEMENT.
The public are here presented with a translation from the French of the
“Pocket Lavater,” a work which has become highly popular in France, and
which has run through successive and repeated editions.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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