Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine, ou, Analyse électro-physiologique de l'expression des passions
By: par le docteur G.-B. Duchenne (de Boulogne) ; avec un atlas composé de 74 figures électro-physiologiques photographiées
Publisher: Chez Ve Jules Renouard, Libraire
Published: 1862
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 194
Subjects: Facial expression; Physiological aspects; Face; Muscles; Physiognomy; Electrophysiology; Medical photography
Other titles: Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine; Analyse électro-physiologique de l'expression des passions
Notes: Title of v. 2: Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine, ou, Analyse électro-physiologique de l'expression des passions applicable a la pratique des arts plastiques. Album.

Vol. 2, p. [v]-vi and [1]-2 are known in two settings. In one setting, p. [v] has no footnote, and p. [1] has caption title: Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine. In the other setting, there is a footnote at the foot of p. [v], and the caption title on p. [1] reads: Études électro-physiologiques sur le mécanisme de la physionomie humaine. The latter setting may possibly have been prepared for use in a separate 1-volume issue of the text, in which p. [i]-[iv] of v. 2 would have been cancelled.

The plates are mounted photographs (albumen prints) by Duchenne, assisted by A. Tournachon, with letterpress captions and legend at top: Électro-physiologie photographique. Copies are known in which some plates are numbered in ms. or with a stamp and have a variant legend at top: Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine.

The plates consist of a frontispiece in v. 1 of Duchenne applying electrodes to a patient, and a separate atlas of 93 plates. Plates 1-9 (1st count) of the atlas each contain 16 oval ports. which are cropped versions of the ports. in plates 1-84 (2nd count).

Atlas plates 1-73 (2nd count) exist in two versions. In one version, most images have oval frames, and the plate ("Fig.") no. appears in the upper right corner of the print. In the other version, the images are unframed and the plate no. is given in letterpress above the print. In a few cases the images vary between versions. Plates 74-84 are known only with oval frames and plate number in the print.

"Travaux de l'auteur": v. 1, p. [vii]-[viii].

Includes bibliographical references.

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