Dissertation sur les variétés naturelles, qui caractérisent la physionomie des hommes des divers climats et des différens ages (...) Paris: Jansen and The Hague: van Cleef, 1791. 27x22cm, 4o,168 pp. titlepage with vignette showing two putti with heads, pages clean, only minor waterstain on bottom margin, hardcover with blue paper binding, soiled and damaged front and back, spine gone, endpaper loose, all XI folded plates are in place, engraved by Mariage after P. Camper, second plate 11 most likely added from the Dutch version, engraved by H. Vinkeles 1781 and after P.C. 1780. Pierre de Camper (1722-1789) was a professor of medicine, surgery and anatomy in Amsterdam. "Lectures on the methods of representing the passions in the human face, and on other aspects of medicine and the arts." -Garrison-Morton 6604.91 (Dutch edition). "This work on physiognomy includes Camper's description of his craniometrical methods. Camper is chiefly remembered for the 'facial angle' of his own invention." -Garrison-Morton 158 (German edition). Camper was a Dutch physician, anatomist, physiologist, midwife, zoologist, anthropologist, paleontologist and a naturalist. He was the son of a local well-to-do minister, who made his fortune in the East Indies. As a brilliant alumnus, he studied in the University of Leiden, earning degrees in both medicine and philosophy at the age of 24. He was offered sundry professorships, being first named professor of philosophy, anatomy and surgery in 1750 at the University of Franeker. First French translation of this important work.