L'Art de Juger du Caractère des Hommes sur leur Ecriture, avec vingt-quatre Planches représentant les Ecritures de Divers Personnages Célèbres, Gravées d'après les Originaux Autographes
Paris, Saintin, 1816 (new enlarged edition)/ 1812.
Sextodecimo, 78 pages plus 24 pages of illustrations (principally examples of handwriting) and a hand-coloured pictorial frontispiece.
Uncut in the original wrappers mounted on earlier recycled printed matter (with the spine expertly renewed); edges of the wrappers and leaves a little chipped with some corners rounded off or a trifle dog-eared; overall a most agreeable copy.
Examples of the handwriting of Elizabeth I, Mary Stuart, Louis XIV, Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Rousseau and Voltaire, among others, are given. The first two plates contain a relatively early French example of the complete manual alphabet for the deaf.
Item #77929
Price (AUD):
$250.00