Boston: Marsh, Capen & Lyon; New-York: Daniel Appleton & Co., 1836. First edition. Small 8vo (7.63 x 4.75), original ribbon embossed violet cloth, printed paper spine label, iv, 183, [1], 4 pages. From the pioneering Scottish phrenologist and then professor at the University of Edinburgh; these lectures were not collected..... More
Philadelphia: Printed and Published by Merrihew & Gunn, 1837. First edition. 12mo, original rose linen spine, printed drab boards, 84 pages. Poe enthusiast Joseph Jackson was fresh off his triumphant 1920 attribution to Poe of the uncommon pseudonymous anti-Dickens English Notes (Boston, 1842) by "Quarles Quickens," when, in Jackson's own..... More
New York: Fowlers and Wells, Phrenological Cabinet, 131 Nassau Street, 1849. Stated fifth edition. 8vo (7.5 x 4.88 inches), original blind-stamped brown cloth, gilt pictorial spine, [1-6], [i]-xii, [19]-312, [4] pages. Illus. A popular physiology on phrenological principles, but also touching on water cure principles, ventilation reform, rational dress, meatless..... More
Boston: Marsh, Capen & Lyon, 1832. First edition. 8vo, removed pamphlet (no wrappers), 32 pages. The German phrenology pioneer died in Boston of typhoid while on tour in America; he was given an elaborate funeral, including this laudatory address from the Harvard professor Follen, published here by perhaps the leading..... More
New York: For sale, wholesale and retail, by O. S. Fowler and L. N. Fowler, [ca. 1840-1845]. Stated 151st edition. 2 vols, each in printed yellow wrappers paginated [1]-4 and with the text, "Pathological Facts," 7.25 x 4.25 inches, 19, [5] pages. Illus. A moderately early phrenological work, published prior..... More
Paris: Victor Masson, 1853. First edition. Original printed wrappers, 8.88 x 5.63 inches, 150 pages. Illus. A presentation copy, inscribed in ink on the half-title and signed La Corbière. Suggestive of the relationships between free thought, progressive causes, and the practice of phrenology, a monograph from the ex-Carbonaro, 1830 revolutionary..... More
New York: Fowler & Wells Co., 1890. First edition. Small 8vo, original printed wrappers, 38, [10] pages. Illus. ads. The addresses and remarks delivered at the American Institute of Phrenology in New York, largely from the renowned Nelson B. Sizer (through there is also an ode on Spurzheim) and including..... More
New York: Fowler & Wells Co., 1884. Stated fourth edition. Original printed drab wrappers, 7.25 x 4.88 inches, 34, [10] pages, wire stitched. First published by the phrenological and health reform house Fowler & Wells in 1881, essentially an extended advertisement for the Health Food Company of New York—which appears..... More
Boston: Printed by Jonathan Howe, 1823. Second edition. Original grained sheep spine and tips, blue boards, 7.25 x 4.5 inches, 148, 16, 16 pages. Errata slip tipped in after the final page of text. The attorney Bartlett first published his collection of aphorisms in 1810 in Portsmouth, N.H.; this edition..... More
