Author: PHYSIONOMIES NATIONALES
Title: Physionomies nationales des peuples ou les traits de leur visage comaréz à leur moeurs et caractères, avec vintcinq planches. Paris, chez Delaunay (Impr. de Fain), no date (ca 1810-15).
Description: . 16mo. Pp. (ii), 125, (1). With engraved title, twenty-five engraved plates, of which twenty-four hand-coloured portraits. Front endpaper with scribble. Contemporary full calf, gilt floral borders on covers, flat spine decorated in gilt and with red title-label, marbled endpapers and edges, extremities rubbed, spine restored .... Occasionally some minor staining. First edition of this anonymous work that compares the physiognomy of the various people of the world. The work is based on Blumenbach's model. His teachings in comparative anatomy were applied to his classification of human races, of which he claimed there were five; Caucasian, Mongolian, Malayan, Ethiopian, and American. Many of the portraits are taken from well-known travelogues such as Cook and Baudin.

Keywords: Travel general, anatomy, peoples, physiognomy, portraits, illustrated, watercolour, travel, exploration, asia, america, africa, caucasia, mongolia, malayan,


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