New Illustrated Self-Instructor in Phrenology and Physiology; With Over One Hundred Engravings by FOWLER, O.S. and L.N - 1880

NY: Samuel R. Wells, 1873. Wrappers. Printed wrappers, 176 pps. with 2 pps. publisher's ads. Illustrated with over 100 engravings. Guide to the pseudo-science of phrenology, the method of determining caracter, personality and talents of a person by studying the contours of the skull. This particular edition was designed to be personalized with blanks on the front wrapper for "The Chart and Character of___________ as Marked By ___________" and with a two page numerical chart on which scores are noted in pencil. Wrappers have soiling and chips, interior pages a bit rounded at the corners. As is.

Paperback / softback. New.

New York: Samuel R.Wells, 1875. Later Printing . Hardcover. Vg/No Jacket. 12mo. 176 pgs.plus four pages of publishers ads at the end. b/w illustrs.Charts.Green blindstamped and gilt decorated cloth with little wear.Spotty foxing in the text.....not unsightly.Enables the reader to determine the character of a person by interpreting the shape and bumps of the head.....

New York: Fowler and Wells, (1859), 1859. Hardcover. Good Plus Condition.. 12mo. pp. viii, (9)-176, 3 ads. Illustrated. Protected in mylar. Original cloth binding has minor wear at tips and top and bottom of spine. Minor foxing a few pages at front and rear. 1" tear to one page. Name of former owner in on title page and the chart has been marked.

Hardback. New.

Hardback. New.

Fowler and Wells, Publishers. Used - Acceptable. Acceptable condition. Hardcover edition. Front hinge Broken. Front cover detached. Rear hinge cracking. Writing inside. Slightly dampstained. Some pages torn slightly. text intace. Reading copy only. (Self Help, Phrenology and Physiology)

London: Published for L.N. Fowler of New York by W. Tweedie. Ninth English edition, forty-fifth thousand. Octavo, original cloth boards with gilt decoration and lettering and blindstamped decoration, b&w illus, pp 176. The title page has been filled out with name of the 'character' studied, and signed by the author, L.N. Fowler, Birmingham, Feb, 1st 1868. N.d., c. 1866. The tables on pages v - vi have been marked with by Fowler with handwritten numbers for 'amativeness', conjugality', 'parental love', 'friendship', 'destructiveness', etc. Some toning to pages, clean apart from the author's own findings. Near-fine condition.This copy is unusual in being signed by Lorenzo Niles Fowler (see description below). Detailed discussion of phrenology, with individual chart, and many illustrations, including the famous Fowler phrenology head which shows the organs of the brain which supposedly represent the degrees of various qualities. Phrenology is a… Read More