Essai sur la physiognomonie, : destiné à faire connoître l'homme & à le faire aimer. /
Lavater, Johann Caspar,1741-1801.
Caillard, Antoine Bernard,1737-1807.
Chodowiecki, Daniel,1726-1801.
La Fite, Jean Daniel de,1719-1781.
La Fite, Marie Élisabeth (Bouée) de,1737-1794.
Renfner, Henri,1753-1819.
A La Haye, : Imprimé chez Jaques van Karnebeek, imprimeur de la ville & du petit Sceau de al Province d'Hollande.,
[1781-1803]
Imprint from colophon.
Dedicatory epistle in v. 1 is dated Aug. 23, 1801.
Volumes 2-4 printed 1783, 1786 and 1803.
"Ouvrage remarquable pour son illustration, en grande partie due à Chodowiecki."--Dorbon aînè, Bibliotheca esoterica [1940].
Translated by Henri Renfner, J.D. and M.E. de La Fite, and A.B. Caillard from a revised and enlarged manuscript version of the author's Physiognomische Fragmente (Leipzig and Winterthur, 1775-78).
A revised edition of his translation was published in Paris in 1806-09 under title: L'art de connaître les hommes par la physionomie.
Includes index.
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