Mar 08, 2007 - Sale 2107

Sale 2107 - Lot 151

Price Realized: $ 510
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
FORSTER, THOMAS IGNATIUS MARIA. Sketch of the New Anatomy and Physiology of the Brain and Nervous System of Drs. Gall and Spurzheim. Frontispiece phrenological diagram (with blank upper margin excised and restored). Publisher's 16-page catalogue in front dated March 1815; ad leaf at end. 8vo, original boards, rebacked, front joint cracked; uncut. London, 1815

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first edition. Forster coined the term "phrenology" to describe the system of Gall and Spurzheim. Hunter & Macalpine, page 721; Rieber & Gach 164.