A defence of phrenology: containing I. An essay on the nature and value of phrenological evidence; II. A vindication of phrenology against the attack of Dr. John Augustine Smith
[New York]: Fowlers and Wells, 1850. 12mo, pp. vi, 222, [6]; text illustrations throughout; publisher's brown blind-tooled cloth, decorative spine lettered and stamped in gilt; small losses to cloth along extremities; lacking ffep, some spotting throughout; contemporary private library bookplate on front pastedown, modern bookplate on front flyleaf; a very good, sound copy over all. Copyright date 1847. 6 pp. of publisher's advertisements, mostly to do with phrenology, bound in rear. The second section refers to the former president of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City (now Columbia University's medical school). Item #42761
Price: $35.00
