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Phrenologische Bilder : zur Naturlehre des menschlichen Geistes und deren Anwendung auf Wissenschaft und Leben auch zur Verständigung zwischen Phrenologie und Anthropologie / von Gustav Scheve.

Gustav Scheve · 1874 · Leipzig : J.J. Weber, 1874. · 29 pictures

Phrenologische Bilder is an 1874 German treatise on phrenology by Gustav Scheve, published in Leipzig by J.J. Weber, aimed at scholars and readers linking phrenology with anthropology. Its plates show labelled skull profiles with lettered cranial regions, a pair of cast heads in profile, and a period engraved portrait of a man in a wig and high collar, set in plain line engraving with hatched shading that a designer could borrow for anatomical or diagrammatic work.

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