first edition
1836. · Boston:
by Combe, George.
Boston: Marsh, Capen & Lyon; New-York: Daniel Appleton & Co., 1836. First edition.. Spine and board edges faded to tan; lightly foxed; a very good copy.. Small 8vo (7.63 x 4.75), original ribbon embossed violet cloth, printed paper spine label, iv, 183, [1], 4 pages. From the pioneering Scottish phrenologist and then professor at the University of Edinburgh; these lectures were not collected in a Scottish edition until 1840. Contemporary pencil ownership signature on the front free endpaper. American Imprints 36851. (Inventory #: 20351)