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Petrus Camper

The works of the late Professor Camper, on the connexion between the science of anatomy and the arts of drawing, painting, statuary, &c. &c. in two books. Containing A Treatise on the Natural Difference of Features in Persons of Different Countries and Periods of Life; and on Beauty, as Exhibited in Ancient Sculpture; with a New Method of Sketching Heads, National Features, and Portraits of Individuals, with Accuracy, &c. &c. Illustrated with seventeen plates, Explanatory of the Professor’s leading Principles. Translated from the Dutch by T. Cogan, M.D.