[Rarebooks] For Sale: Phrenology, &c.

[Norman Kane]

  THE JOURNAL OF HEALTH AND PHRENOLOGICAL MAGAZINE . . .  VOLUME 5 - 
NEW SERIES, [Aug. 1855 - July, 1856.]    London: William Horsell, 
492, New Oxford Street.  Original cloth, just slight wear, rebacked 
with cloth and new label, approx. 9 X 5 1/2 inches. 16 pages of 
terminal advts. dated July, 1856.  Illustrated.  (The title, as such, 
and this volume in particular, seem quite scarce. It covers a wide 
range of 19th Century radicalism, &c: vegetarianism, tea & coffee, 
hydropathy, wine, homoeopathy, mesmerism, opium traffic, temperance, 
phrenological descriptions of Kossuth, Palmerston, W. J. Fox et al, 
&c, &c.  Horsell, also editor of "The Truth-Tester", was a leader in 
the Vegetarian movement.)
$150.00      (Trade Discount Available)

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