The pocket Lavater, or, The science of physiognomy

The main work is "a translation from the French of the Pocket Lavater ... which ... in France ... has run through successive and repeated editions." - p. [iii] The second edition was published in Paris in 1808 under title: Le Lavater portatif, ou Précis de L'art de connaître les hommes par les traits du visage. The original was abridged from the French edition of Lavater's Physiognomische fragmente which was published in Paris in 1806-07 under title: L'art de connaître les hommes par la physionomie "Comparison of man with other animals" (extracts translated from the second book of Porta's De humana physiognomonia): p. [99]-137 Film 633 reel 59 is part of Research Publications Early American Medical Imprints collection (RP reel 59, no. 1131) Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints Shaw & Shoemaker Microfilm NLM copy, ownership inscription of W. Perkins Edson, on t.p Will digitize Condition reviewed