[Medicine]. CAMPER, Peter.

Über den natürlichen Unterschied der Gesichtszüge in Menschen verschiedener Gegenden und verschiedenen Alters;. über das Schöne antiker Bildsäulen und geschnittener Steine; nebst Darstellung einer neuen Art, allerlei Menschenköpfe mit Sicherheit zu zeichnen. Herausgegeben von A. G. Camper. (Aus dem Holländischen) übersetzt von S. Th. Sömmerring. (From the library of Dr. Manfred S. Guttmacher, important forensic psychiatrist and author of many books, including An Interpretation of the Madness of King George III and The Mind of the Murderer, with Guttmacher's ownership signature. This copy also has 14 lines of apparently contemporary notes in French on FFEP. .

Berlin: Vossischen Buchhandlung, 1792. First edition. Original marbled paper over boards. Small quarto, pp. 77 plus 10 fold-out plates inside back cover. Good+. w/ edgewear to original binding, spine about 25 percent chipped, interior Very Good, pages clean w/ occasional light waviness but almost no spotting. Item #8882

Very nice copy of a scarce book, particularly scarce in the United States. A famous anatomist during his lifetime, Camper did much work on the measurement of cranial and facial bones. Several anatomical structures still bear his name, and he is also famous as the anatomist who discovered the air spaces in the bones of birds.

Price: $900.00