Metoposcopia & ophthalmoscopia

Signatures: ):(⁸ A-H⁸ I⁶ Contains numerous engraved portraits scattered throughout the text Bound in late 19th or early 20th century brown boards; edges stained blue; small stamp of C.E. Rappaport on front free endpaper recto [16], 140, [4] p. 17 cm (8vo) "Samuel Fuchs, a native of Köslin in Pomerania, was professor of rhetoric at Königsberg. In [the present work] he suggests a system for the estimation of character based on the shape of the head and the eyes which is linked by Garrison (p. 273) to the work of Carden and Lavater. Among the finely executed engravings and woodcuts are portraits of Cosimo Medici, Andrea Doria, Christopher Columbus, and Philip II, Duke of Pomerania. A. de Neuille published a detailed analysis of this work, "Une precurseur de Lambroso au XVIIe siecle," in La Revue des Revues (15 June 1896). Cf. L. Stieda, "Samuel Fuchs, der Verfasser der Metoposcopia und Ophthalmoscopia," Janus 4:134-136 (1899). [Cf. Garrison, p. 273; Hirschberg, section 483; Waller, I:3303; Wellcome, I:2468.]"--Online catalog of The Bernard Becker Collection in Ophthalmology (Washington Univ. in St. Louis) Signatures:):(⁸ A-I⁸ Some text printed in italics. Woodcut ornaments "Opthalmoscopia": pages 86-140 LC copy incomplete: p. 81-96 (gathering F) and last two leaves of final gathering wanting; repairs to first and last leaves. In contemporary vellum binding with gold stamping on spine: Fuchsius, Metoposcopia et ophthalmoscopia. Has book dealer's advertisement tipped in at front. Has inscription: OW Holmes, Boston