Description: 1835 THE FIRST BOOK ON PHRENOLOGY PUBLISHED IN MEXICO JOSE RAMON PACHECO Pacheco, José Ramón. Esposicion Sumaria del Sistema Frenológico del Doctor Gall. Mexico: Impreso por Ignacio Cumplido, 1835. Octavo, rebound in red leather with gilt title on spine, clxxxv, 76 pp + 2 folding plates. First edition. Small tear to first plate else very good. Jose Ramon Pacheco (1804-1865) was a Mexican professor, writer, lawyer and Minister of Foreign Affairs. Among his many accomplishments was to introduce the study of phrenology to Mexico with this work, Esposicion Sumaria del Sistema Frenológico del Doctor Gall, which is considered the first book on the subject published in Mexico. There are two folding plates at the rear of the text, the first illustrating parts of the brain, the second analyzing the skull structure of famous men such as Roger Bacon and Immanuel Kant. We locate 5 institutional holdings in the US: UCLA, UC Berkeley, Columbia, National Library of Medicine and College of Physicians of Philadelphia.
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Binding: Leather
Language: Spanish
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Illustrated
Author: Jose Ramon Pacheco
Topic: Alternative Medicine
Subject: Science & Medicine
Original/Facsimile: Original
