Lot 1023 , Lavater, John Casper - Essays of Physiognomy for the promotion of the knowledge on the love of mankind...translated into English by Thomas Holcroft.

° Lavater, John Casper - Essays of Physiognomy for the promotion of the knowledge on the love of mankind...translated into English by Thomas Holcroft. 2nd edition. 3 vols in 4. frontispiece portrait and 424 engraved plates. contemp. mottled calf, gilt tooled border, spines gilt, marbled endpapers, inner dentelles gilt, 8vo. London: for H.D. Symonds... and J Walker. 1804. * armorial bookplate of Viscount Monck.
£120-180

Condition:
some wear and repairs to spines, esp. vol.1 with some loss of gilt, cracking to joints but holding firm, dampstain to frontis. piece margin and some occasional offsetting. generally clean. pp.tp+cxlix+[i]+242; [iv]+324; [vi} +272; tp + [ii]+273-399+[x].