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[Medicine & Science] Bell, Charles (1774-1842) Essays on the Anatomy of Expression in Painting.
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme, 1806.
First edition, large quarto, with numerous text illustrations of skulls, faces, and heads of people and animals showing a variety of facial expressions; along with six full-paged plates; bound in contemporary half calf and marbled paper boards, joints cracked, rubbed and worn, corners of textblock bumped, 11 1/2 x 9 in.
Bell was an accomplished Scottish anatomist, surgeon, artist, and military surgeon.
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