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Essays on physiognomy

for the promotion of the knowledge and the love of mankind

by Samuel Hill, Thomas Holcroft, Johann Caspar Lavater, William Spotswood & David West

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  • 18th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source
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Edition statement taken from the "Advertisement" which follows the engraved title page Date of publication suggested by Evans Title page and plates engraved by Samuel Hill Plate I and the engraved title leaf (pi1) are conjugate Signatures: pi1 A² B-U⁶ V⁶ W⁶ X⁶ Y⁴ NLM Copy 1: pp. 7-8 mutilated, affecting text Film 633 reel 59 is part of Research Publications Early American Medical Imprints collection (RP reel 59, no. 1130) Austin, R.B. Early Amer. med. imprints Blake, J. NLM 18th cent. Evans Wellcome cat. of printed books ESTC (RLIN) Microfilm NLM Copy 1 provenance: former owner's inscription crossed-out on t.p, affecting legibility; inscription of Peter [Galer?] on B1r; NLM Copy 2 provenance: bookplate of Newton Ingram Alliger; inscription of Andrew Judson, 1796, on B1r Will digitize Condition reviewed

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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 matched “Physiognomy”. Retained metadata contains “Physiognomy” in the title, “Physiognomy” in the subject metadata, and “Physiognomy” in the edition title.

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    • “Physiognomy”· in title
    • “Physiognomy”· in subject
    • “Physiognomy”· in edition title

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for the promotion of the knowledge and the love of mankind

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1794-01-01T00:00:00ZBoston : Printed for William Spotswood, & David WestEnglish—Public digitized item

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  • Contributing institution: U.S. National Library of Medicine
  • Digitization sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons, U.S. National Library of Medicine
  • 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; medicalheritagelibrary; usnationallibraryofmedicine
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internet-archive:2561007R.nlm.nih.gov
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