1884 The Modern Self-Instructor in Phrenology, Physiology, and Phsiognomy; or the Peoples' Hand-Book of Human Nature; Containing a view of the Moral and Theological bearing of the Science of Phrenology

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce

The very scarce first edition of this work.

In the publisher's original cloth binding with gilt.

With fifty-one illustrative plates by Fritz Braun. 

This work offers a combination of philosophy and science in its discussion of the theory of phrenology. It proposes various ways of looking at the skull to predict mental traits. 

It also looks at the physiological differences between men and women, and categorises the brain into 'faculties', such as sight, taste, smell, language, calculation, tune and others. 

Portraits of notable figures are used as examples, such as Florence Nightingale, Michael Angelo and William Shakespeare.