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A system of practical and scientific physiognomy

or, How to read faces : being a manual of instruction in the knowledge of the human physiognomy and organism, embracing the discoveries of located signs of character in the body and face, as shown by the five natural divisions of the countenance

Also known as A system of practical and scientific physiognomy; or, How to read faces

by Mary Olmstead Stanton & Mary Olmstead Mrs Stanton

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  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 1211-1212) and index

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Divination and oracles.

  • Divination and oracles

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive, openlibrary, and openlibrary-historical matched “Physiognomy”. Retained metadata contains “Physiognomy” in the title, “Physiognomy” in the subtitle, “Physiognomy” in the alternative title, and 3 additional metadata match(es).

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    • “Physiognomy”· via Open Library
    • “Physiognomy”· in title
    • “Physiognomy”· in subtitle
    • “Physiognomy”· in alternative title
    • “Physiognomy”· in subject

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Open Library reports 4 editions; 2 cataloged here.

or, How to read faces : being a manual of instruction in the knowledge of the human physiognomy and organism, embracing the discoveries of located signs of character in the body and face, as shown by the five natural divisions of the countenance

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1890Philadelphia ; London : F.A. Davis, PublisherEnglish—Public

or, How to read faces ...

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

1890F. A. Davis; Philadelphia, London : F. A. DavisEnglish—No ebook

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Cataloging notes

  • Contributing institution: University of California Libraries
  • Contributing institution: Wellcome Library
  • Digitization sponsor: MSN
  • Digitization sponsor: Wellcome Library
  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: americana
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: europeanlibraries; medicalheritagelibrary; wellcomelibrary
  • Open Library reports 4 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
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  • Source-reported rights: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/" rel="ugc nofollow">This work is available under the Creative Commons, Public Domain Mark</a>
  • Source-reported rights: This work is available under the Creative Commons, Public Domain Mark
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