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How to read character

a new illustrated hand-book of phrenology and physiognomy for students and examiners : with a descriptive chart

by Samuel R. Wells & Samuel Samuel Roberts Wells

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source
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191, [5] p. : 20 cm Author from verso of t.p Cover title: How to read character, a hand book of physiology, phrenology and physiognomy illustrated with a descriptive chart Numerous contemporary ms. annotations, including the data of a phrenological exam using the worksheet Gift; Edward B. Schlesinger NLM copy, original cloth publisher's binding with Dutch gold stamping Condition reviewed 20130807 digitized. 2020

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Why this book is in the catalog

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 subtitle, “Physiognomy” in the description, “Physiognomy” in the subject metadata, and 1 additional metadata match(es).

    • “Physiognomy”· via Internet Archive
    • “Physiognomy”· via Open Library
    • “Physiognomy”· in subtitle
    • “Physiognomy”· in description
    • “Physiognomy”· in subject
    • “Physiognomy”· in edition subtitle

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Editions

Open Library reports 8 editions; 5 cataloged here.

a new illustrated hand-book of phrenology and physiognomy, for students and examiners : with a descriptive chart

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

1879-01-01T00:00:00ZNew York : S.R. Wells & Company, publishers ...English—Public digitized item

a new illustrated hand-book of phrenology and physiognomy, for students and examiners, with a descriptive chart

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

1894-01-01T00:00:00ZNew York : Fowler & Wells Co.English—Public digitized item

a new illustrated hand-book of phrenology and physiognomy, for students and examiners : with a descriptive chart.

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

1890Fowler & Wells; New York : Fowler & WellsEnglish—Public

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Cataloging notes

  • Contributing institution: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
  • Contributing institution: U.S. National Library of Medicine
  • Contributing institution: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
  • Digitization sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons
  • Digitization sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
  • 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
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: americana; medicalheritagelibrary; usnationallibraryofmedicine
  • Open Library reports 2 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Open Library reports 8 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Scanner: scribe2.boston.archive.org
  • Scanner: scribe2.nj.archive.org
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openlibrary-work:OL15527984W
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