Guillaume-Amant Duchenne de Boulogne
1876
Mécanisme de la Physionomie humaine ou Analyse Electro-Physiologique de l'Expression des Passions

Book title page and plate
28 x 19.5 cm
 
Bassenge Photography Auctions
Auction (17 June 2009, Sale 93, Lot 4643a)
 
Contemporary half-leather volume (edges rubbed, piece missing at upper spine) with gilt-stamped spine. Paris, Libraire J.B. Baillière et fils, 1876.
 
The frontispiece shows Dr. Duchenne with a patient (1 albumen print, 17,3 x 12,4 cm). With 9 plates each with 1 tableau of 16 physiognomic studies (albumen prints, ca. 13,5 x 10,5 cm). Mounted to card with photographer's name printed below the images on the mount (slight buckling in edges). - Hirsch-H. II, 324. Second edition. Important document showing the use of photography to illustrate Duchenne's theories on physiognomy.
 
LL/32571