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Title: Over de vraag, om de onderscheiden hartstogten op onze wesens te verbeelden; over de verbaazenden overeenkomst tusschen viervoetige dieren, de vogelen, de visschen en de menschen; en over het gedaante schoon.
Description: Utrecht, A.C. Camper/ Wilt en Altheer, 1792. 4to. W. fine portr. by R. Vinkeles and 12 engr. pls. Orig. limp pr. brds., spine replaced in matching colour. (X, 95, II, III pp.). Choulant, 286: "These lectures on the methods of representing the different passions in the human face; on the astouding similarity between quadrupeds, birds, fish and man; and on the beauty of form were given at the Academy of graphic and plastic arts in Amsterdam...": Comp. G & M. p.158: (first German edition of the same year): "Camper is chiefly remembered for the 'facial angle' of his own invention...This is the rare first ed., edited by his son, with the portrait. The outline drawings are repoduced, as it seems to be, by the process of Ploos van Amstel.

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Price: EUR 825.00 = appr. US$ 896.65 Seller: Antiquariaat B.M.Israel B.V.
- Book number: 6375