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Concept

Phrenology

Images

  • Human skull: frontal view. Lithograph, c. 1835.
  • Phrenological illustrations, or an artist's view of the craniological system of Doctors Gall and Spurzheim / By George Cruikshank.
  • The criminal / by Havelock Ellis.
  • Coombe's synopsis of phrenology : for the use of practical phrenologists.
  • Three perspectives of a skull sectioned and numbered according to Gall's system of phrenology. Engraving, 1806.
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Catalogue

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    Colloquies : imaginary conversations between a phrenologist and the shade of Dugald Stewart / by J. Slade.

    Slade, J. | Date: 1838
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    A catechism of phrenology : illustrative of the principles of that science / by a Member of the Phrenological Society of Edinburgh.

    | Date: 1835
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    Utility of phrenology : a lecture / by L.N. Fowler.

    Fowler, L. N. (Lorenzo Niles), 1811-1896. | Date: Between 1873 and 1879?]
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    Phrenology, or the doctrine of the mental phenomena / by J.G. Spurzheim ; with an introduction by Cyrus Elder.

    Spurzheim, J. G. (Johann Gaspar), 1776-1832. | Date: 1908
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    Remarks on the principles of phrenology : a lecture delivered before the Fredericksburg Phrenological Society, Feb. 11, 1834 / by Beverley R. Wellford.

    Wellford, Beverley R. (Beverley Randolph), 1797-1870. | Date: 1834
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