{"product_id":"petrus-camper-copy-55","title":"Pierre (Petrus) Camper, Dissertation Physique Discours Prononces, 1792, Good + leatherbound","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCamper, Pierre, Dissertation Physique de Mr. Pierre Camper sur les Differences Reeles que Presentent les Traits du Visage Chez les Hommes de Differents Pays et de Differents Ages (WITH) Discours Prononces par Feu Mr. Pierre Camper (two works bound in one volume), Utrecht: B. Wild et J. Altheer 1791,1792, French, Good hardcover 4to, 8 ½” x 10 ½”, 114 pp., 116 pp., portrait frontispiece + 21 engraved foldout plates\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMarbled leather boards with minor stains to front panel, raised bands and faded gilt stamped title to spine, some chipping to head, foot, and lower left of front panel, edgewear and scuffing to boards. Temperature waffling and minor creasing to interior pages, chip on page 105\/106 of second volume with some loss to last few lines of text .Marbled endpapers, all textblock edges stained in red, ownership label of ‘Mateo Seoane’ to upper left of front pastedown.  Frontispiece with engraved portrait of the author. Many pullout illustrations in black-and-white. First edition in French (translated from the Dutch by Denis D’Isjonval) published after the author’s death by his son Adrien Gilles Camper. An undated handwritten slip in French with marvelous penmanship musing on classical ideas of beauty in man and nature laid in. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePetrus Camper FRS (11 May 1722 – 7 April 1789), was a Dutch physician, anatomist, physiologist, midwife, zoologist, anthropologist, paleontologist and a naturalist in the Age of Enlightenment. A pioneer in comparative anatomy, paleontology, and specifically, the facial angles of mammals, he was among the first to mark out an \"anthropology,\" and distinguish it from natural history. Camper's research was miscontextualized and used as the basis for pseudoscience practices like phrenology. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eA beautiful rendering on a scholar who is receiving renewed interest, this copy could use some professional repair, but a special find for the naturalist collector.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Amatoria Fine Art Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55463173620017,"sku":null,"price":384.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0785\/8726\/5329\/files\/IMG_6278_f5c1a631-37bf-4ed2-b0f1-55e98ffb3fd5.jpg?v=1786390219","url":"https:\/\/amatoriafineartbooks.shop\/products\/petrus-camper-copy-55","provider":"Amatoria Fine Art Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}