NO RESERVE Camper (Petrus) Dissertation Physique...sur les différences réelles que présentent les traits du visage chez les hommes de différents pays et de différents âges..., 10 engraved plates, 5 folding, 1791; Discours...sur le moyen de représenter d'une manière sûre les diverses passions qui se manifestent sur le visage, folding engraved portrait by R.Vinkeles, 11 engraved plates, 5 folding, 1792, together 2 works in 1 vol. (the second bound first), edited by Adrien Gilles Camper, first editions in French, half-titles, old ink inscriptions to half-title of Discours, contemporary half green morocco, spines with gilt bands, rubbed, rubbed, corners worn, [Waller 1728 & 1724], 4to, Utrecht, B.Wild & J.Altheer

⁂ Two influential works by the Dutch physician and physiologist, one of the first to take an interest in comparative anatomy. The first mentioned work is on craniology and introduced the facial angle or "Camper's angle", comparing the angle of the human face of modern peoples to classical statues. The second item concerns the scientific representation of the human form in art and the similarity of expression in humans and animals.