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Scientific: Medical - Guillaume-Amant Duchenne de Boulogne
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1.Guillaume-Amant Duchenne de Boulogne
n.d.
Guillaume Benjamin Amand Duchenne de Boulogne

Photomechanical print
Wellcome Collection
Wellcome Library, London (V0026311, Library reference no.: ICV No 26764)
 
Wellcome Library no. 12654i.
 
LL/36749
2.Guillaume-Amant Duchenne de Boulogne
1855
Duchenne's apparatus for electrotherapy. An early version.

Book illustration
Wellcome Collection
Wellcome Library, London (L0011440)
 
Guillaume Benjamin Amand Duchenne de Boulogne De L'electrisation localisee et de son application a la physiologie, a la pathologie et a la therapeutique (Paris: J.B.Bailliere, 1855), p.128
 
LL/36751
3.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/32570
4.Guillaume-Amant Duchenne de Boulogne
1883 (published)
Duchenne de Boulogne, faradising the frontal muscles

Lithograph
Wellcome Collection
Wellcome Library, London (M0011346)
 
New Sydenham Society (Series) ; v. 105.
 
LL/36750
5.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/32573
6.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
7.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/32572
8.Guillaume-Amant Duchenne de Boulogne
1862
Page from "Mecanisme de la Physionomie Humaine", Pl.1

Book plate
National Science and Media Museum
LL/39431
9.Guillaume-Amant Duchenne de Boulogne
1862
Page from "Mecanisme de la Physionomie Humaine", Pl.4

Book plate
National Science and Media Museum
LL/39433
10.Guillaume-Amant Duchenne de Boulogne
1862
Page from "Mecanisme de la Physionomie Humaine", Pl.5

Book plate
National Science and Media Museum
LL/39432
11.Guillaume-Amant Duchenne de Boulogne
1862
Page from "Mecanisme de la Physionomie Humaine", Pl.6

Book plate
National Science and Media Museum
LL/39429
12.Guillaume-Amant Duchenne de Boulogne
1862
Page from "Mecanisme de la Physionomie Humaine", Pl.8

Book plate
National Science and Media Museum
LL/39430
13.Duchenne & Adrien Tournachon
n.d.
Plate Nr. 6
[Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine, ou analyse électrophysiologique des passions]

Albumen print
4 1/2 x 3 5/8
 
Charles Nes Photography LLC New York - Paris
LL/5774
14.Duchenne & Adrien Tournachon
n.d.
Plate Nr. 81
[Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine, ou analyse électrophysiologique des passions]

Albumen print
4 1/2 x 3 5/8
 
Charles Nes Photography LLC New York - Paris
LL/5773
15.Duchenne & Adrien Tournachon
n.d.
Plate Nr. 10
[Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine, ou analyse électrophysiologique des passions]

Albumen print
4 1/2 x 3 5/8
 
Charles Nes Photography LLC New York - Paris
LL/5776
16.Duchenne & Adrien Tournachon
n.d.
Plate Nr. 57
[Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine, ou analyse électrophysiologique des passions]

Albumen print
4 1/2 x 3 5/8
 
Charles Nes Photography LLC New York - Paris
LL/5777
17.Duchenne & Adrien Tournachon
n.d.
Plate Nr. 64
[Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine, ou analyse électrophysiologique des passions]

Albumen print
4 1/2 x 3 5/8
 
Charles Nes Photography LLC New York - Paris
LL/5778
18.Duchenne & Adrien Tournachon
1862
From "Mecanisme de la Physionomie Humaine ou Analyse Electro-Physiologique de L'Expression des Passions" (Paris: Chez ve Jules Renouard, Libraire, 1862)
[Mecanisme de la Physionomie Humaine ou Analyse Electro-Physiologique de L'Expression des Passions]
Swann Galleries - New York
Courtesy of Swann Galleries (Auction, May 22, 2007, #2115, Lot 59)
 
With 20 photographic plates, comprising 9 composite montages (each with 16 images) and 11 medium-format studies of women patients from the "Figures esthétiques." Albumen prints, the composites are 5 1/4x4 1/4 inches (13.3x 10.8 cm.) and the studies are 4 1/2x3 1/2 inches (11.4x8.8 cm.), each with a letterpress title, credit, and plate number on mount recto. Tall 4to, original 1/2 calf. Parr/Badger I 50. first edition. Paris: Chez ve Jules Renouard, Libraire, 1862
 
A work of utmost rarity, this copy with 20 photographic plates.
 
The great nineteenth-century French neurologist Duchenne de Boulogne combined his intimate knowledge of facial anatomy with his skill in photography and expertise in using electricity to stimulate individual facial muscles, producing a fascinating interpretation of the ways in which the human face portrays emotions. According to R. Andrew Cuthbertson, who edited the reprint of this 19th-century masterwork, " [Duchenne's] fascinating photographs and insightful commentary provided generations of researchers with information about the perception and communication of human facial affect. Scientists from Darwin to Ekman all acknowledge their debt to Duchenne. This important photographically illustrated book, with its truly remarkable images, continues to have currency today."
 
Duchenne's principal photographic subject, "The Old Man," was afflicted with almost total facial anaesthesia. This circumstance made him an ideal subject for Duchenne's investigations, because the stimulating electrodes he used were certainly somewhat uncomfortable, if not actually painful to those who could feel them.
 
The collation of this volume is the same as the one in the BibliothÞque Charcot, Paris. (See Duchenne de Boulogne 1806-1875, p. 255). Not in Norman, not in the Parcival Bailey Collection; Waller no. 2606 (copy with only 10 plates). Not in Osler nor in Cushing. Tauregg p. 200. Copies of the first edition were typically issued with different numbers of photographs.
 
The book was published in fascicules containing the introduction first, followed by the scientific section; an aesthetic section was published some months later. This sequential publication had the advantage that criticisms made by reviewers of, for example, the scientific section, were answered by Duchenne in the subsequent Aesthetic section. Together, the three fascicules constituted the "text." They were either purchased already bound together or bought loose and bound in the purchaser's preferred style. This volume features the preface, an "avvertisement" for the aesthetic section, followed by Series One and Two of the Aesthetic Section.
 
LL/19221
19.Guillaume-Amant Duchenne de Boulogne
1862
The facial expression of terror on the human face being induced by electrical currents.

Book illustration
Wellcome Collection
Wellcome Library, London (L0037463, Library reference no.: GC XWM)
 
Guillaume Benjamin Amand Duchenne de Boulogne Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine, ou, Analyse électro-physiologique de l'expression des passions (Paris: Renouard, 1862), Plate 7, Image 64
 
LL/36752
20.Guillaume-Amant Duchenne de Boulogne
1862
The facial expression of attention on the human face being induced by electrical currents.

Book illustration
Wellcome Collection
Wellcome Library, London (L0040050, Library reference no.: GC XWM)
 
Guillaume Benjamin Amand Duchenne de Boulogne Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine, ou, Analyse électro-physiologique de l'expression des passions (Paris: Renouard, 1862), Plate 1, Image 10
 
LL/36753
21.Guillaume-Amant Duchenne de Boulogne
1862
The facial expression of astonishment on the human face being induced by electrical currents.

Book illustration
Wellcome Collection
Wellcome Library, London (L0040104, Library reference no.: GC XWM)
 
Guillaume Benjamin Amand Duchenne de Boulogne Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine, ou, Analyse électro-physiologique de l'expression des passions (Paris: Renouard, 1862), Plate 6, Image 55
 
LL/36754
22.Guillaume-Amant Duchenne de Boulogne
1862
The facial expression of fear on the human face being induced by electrical currents.

Book illustration
Wellcome Collection
Wellcome Library, London (L0040111, Library reference no.: GC XWM)
 
Guillaume Benjamin Amand Duchenne de Boulogne Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine, ou, Analyse électro-physiologique de l'expression des passions (Paris: Renouard, 1862), Plate 7, Image 62
 
LL/36755
23.Guillaume-Amant Duchenne de Boulogne
1862
The facial expression of flirtatiousness on the human face being induced by electrical currents.

Book illustration
Wellcome Collection
Wellcome Library, London (L0040119, Library reference no.: GC XWM)
 
Guillaume Benjamin Amand Duchenne de Boulogne Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine, ou, Analyse électro-physiologique de l'expression des passions (Paris: Renouard, 1862), Plate 8, Image 78
 
LL/36756
   
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