Manly beauty, being a professional, physiological and artistic treatise on the best mode of acquiring and preserving an attractive exterior, consistent with the highest condition of bodily health / By Antoine Saussure, valet-de-chambre.

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Saussure, Antoine, valet-de-chambre.

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Manly beauty, being a professional, physiological and artistic treatise on the best mode of acquiring and preserving an attractive exterior, consistent with the highest condition of bodily health / By Antoine Saussure, valet-de-chambre.