Lectures on phrenology / by George Combe ; including its application to the present and prospective condition of the United States, with notes, an introductory essay, and a historical sketch by Andrew Boardman.
An 1889 New York edition of George Combe's lectures on phrenology, with notes and an introductory essay by Andrew Boardman, published by Fowler & Wells for an American readership interested in the theory that skull shape reveals character. The pictures are plain line engravings of human skulls shown from several angles, with some labelled points and a mounted stand, giving a designer clear, unfussy examples of anatomical drawing in a 19th-century scientific manner.
