LAVATER, Johann Kaspar (1741-1801, poet and physiognomist). Autograph letter signed ('Johann Kaspar Lavater Pfarrer') to the theologian Christian Gotthilf Hermann, Zurich, 11 March 1797, thanking Hermann for a journal, which he promises to bring to the attention of his friends in Switzerland, praising its policy of signed reviews ('Die Idée -- daß jeder Rezensent seinen Namen beÿsetze, gefällt mir sehr. Dadurch wird ... die Tÿrannie der Anonÿmität verdrängt', one page, 4to , integral address panel, remnant of seal (seal tear with loss to upper margin, not touching text, some spotting).
LAVATER, Johann Kaspar (1741-1801, poet and physiognomist). Autograph letter signed ('Johann Kaspar Lavater Pfarrer') to the theologian Christian Gotthilf Hermann, Zurich, 11 March 1797, thanking Hermann for a journal, which he promises to bring to the attention of his friends in Switzerland, praising its policy of signed reviews ('Die Idée -- daß jeder Rezensent seinen Namen beÿsetze, gefällt mir sehr. Dadurch wird ... die Tÿrannie der Anonÿmität verdrängt', one page, 4to , integral address panel, remnant of seal (seal tear with loss to upper margin, not touching text, some spotting). Lavater is perhaps best known now for his handsomely-produced work on physiognomy, Physiognomische Fragmente zur Beförderung der Menschenkenntnis und Menschenliebe (1775-78).
LAVATER, Johann Kaspar (1741-1801, poet and physiognomist). Autograph letter signed ('Johann Kaspar Lavater Pfarrer') to the theologian Christian Gotthilf Hermann, Zurich, 11 March 1797, thanking Hermann for a journal, which he promises to bring to the attention of his friends in Switzerland, praising its policy of signed reviews ('Die Idée -- daß jeder Rezensent seinen Namen beÿsetze, gefällt mir sehr. Dadurch wird ... die Tÿrannie der Anonÿmität verdrängt', one page, 4to , integral address panel, remnant of seal (seal tear with loss to upper margin, not touching text, some spotting).
LAVATER, Johann Kaspar (1741-1801, poet and physiognomist). Autograph letter signed ('Johann Kaspar Lavater Pfarrer') to the theologian Christian Gotthilf Hermann, Zurich, 11 March 1797, thanking Hermann for a journal, which he promises to bring to the attention of his friends in Switzerland, praising its policy of signed reviews ('Die Idée -- daß jeder Rezensent seinen Namen beÿsetze, gefällt mir sehr. Dadurch wird ... die Tÿrannie der Anonÿmität verdrängt', one page, 4to , integral address panel, remnant of seal (seal tear with loss to upper margin, not touching text, some spotting). Lavater is perhaps best known now for his handsomely-produced work on physiognomy, Physiognomische Fragmente zur Beförderung der Menschenkenntnis und Menschenliebe (1775-78).
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