Lavater's Essays on Physiognomy, London, 1797, Vol. 1, Loaded with Engravings gerson bahia marker on lightweight card

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Lavater's Essays on Physiognomy, London, 1797, Vol. 1, Loaded with Engravings gerson bahia marker on lightweight cardThis is a very rare 1797 first edition English translation (published in London) of Johann Kaspar Lavater's "Essays on Physiognomy Calculated to Extend the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind" volume one (of four volumes.) Lavater (1741 1801) was a Swiss poet, writer, philosopher, theologian, and physiognomist, credited with being the first to introduce the idea that physiognomy related to the specific character traits of individuals, rather than