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LAVATER, Johann Caspar (1741-1801). Essai sur la Physiognomonie, destiné á faire connoître l'homme & á le faire aimer. The Hague: Jaques van Karnebeek & J. van Cleef, [1781]-1803.
4 volumes, 4° (365 x 300mm). Engraved vignette on titles by Holzhald after Chodowiecki, half-title in vol.IV, final errata leaf in vol.I, last leaf of directions in vol.IV, 193 engraved plates and numerous engraved illustrations and tail-pieces in the text by Lips, Eckardt, Fiesinger, Haid, Rieter, Schwarz, Schellenburg and others after Chodowiecki, Berger, Schellenberg, Stumpf and others, portrait and 40pp. letterpress biography, 12°, inlaid to size bound in vol.I. (A few marginal tears, a few leaves slightly browned, vol.I and III lack list of plates.) Contemporary red half morocco (scuffed), uncut. Cohen-de Ricci 606. (4)
4 volumes, 4° (365 x 300mm). Engraved vignette on titles by Holzhald after Chodowiecki, half-title in vol.IV, final errata leaf in vol.I, last leaf of directions in vol.IV, 193 engraved plates and numerous engraved illustrations and tail-pieces in the text by Lips, Eckardt, Fiesinger, Haid, Rieter, Schwarz, Schellenburg and others after Chodowiecki, Berger, Schellenberg, Stumpf and others, portrait and 40pp. letterpress biography, 12°, inlaid to size bound in vol.I. (A few marginal tears, a few leaves slightly browned, vol.I and III lack list of plates.) Contemporary red half morocco (scuffed), uncut. Cohen-de Ricci 606. (4)