Description:
Lavater, John Caspar (1741-1801) Essays on Physiognomy. London: for John Murray, H. Hunter, and T. Holloway, 1789. First edition, three large quarto volumes bound as five, illustrated throughout, bound in uniform contemporary diced russia, some boards detached, ex libris Robert Nicholson, Robert Trowbridge, Collin Armstrong, and Thomas Pym Cope, with their bookplates inside the front board and on the front pastedown in the first volume, 13 1/2 x 10 1/2 in. (5)
Estimate $400-600
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Keywords
John Murray, Robert Nicholson, John Caspar, Robert Trowbridge, Collin Armstrong, T. Holloway, H. Hunter, London
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