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Rare and modern books

Edouard Hocquart

L'Art de Juger de l'Esprit et du Caractère des Hommes sur leur Ecriture. Ouvrage neuf, dans lequel sont représentées, avec une vérité frappante, les écritures autographes d'un grand nombre de personnages célèbres, tels qu' Elisabeth, reine d'Angleterre; Marie Stuart, reine d'Ecosse; Louis XIV

Saintin,

750.00 €

Cole & Contreras Books

(Sitges, Spain)

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Author
Edouard Hocquart
Publishers
Saintin
Keyword
coleantiq colefrench graphologie graphisme graphology, lithographie lithography lithographic incunabula
Dust jacket
Yes
Inscribed
Yes
First edition
Yes

Description

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF THE FIRST FRENCH BOOK ON GRAPHOLOGY, THE FOUNDATION OF MODERN GRAPHOLOGY. 2, 52 pp. + 25 plates (a hand-colored engraved frontispiece and 24 lithographed plates with a total of 43 writing samples.) The 24 plates of handwriting include samples from Elizabeth I, Mary Stuart, Bossuet, Racine, Frederick the Great, Voltaire, Rousseau, Benjamin Franklin (the first printed facsimile of his handwriting), and many others. These plates are among the first lithographs printed in France, the medium having been discovered a dozen years earlier. Printed on fine laid paper. 12mo. BOUND IN THE PUBLISHER'S PLAIN WRAPS, the "couverture d'attente" it was in the day it left the printing shop. Entirely uncut. Light wear to wraps, else A PRISTINE COPY OF AN EXTREMELY RARE AND IMPORTANT BOOK. Caillet 5197.
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