DUCHENNE, GUILLAUME-BENJAMIN-AMAND. 1806-1875.


Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine. ou, Analyse électro-physiologique de l'expression des passions. Paris: Bailliere et fils, 1876. 4to. Frontispiece with albumen photograph, 9 plates with albumen print composite photographs, Dupre publisher's cancellation slip pasted over imprint on title page. Contemporary half red morocco and marbled boards. Wear to corners, repair to first leaf of part two, introduction to second part lacking (not bound with this copy). Second edition.WITH: The Mechanism of Human Facial Expression. R.A. Cuthbertson, translator. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. English translation of Duchenne's work.8vo. Publisher's green cloth. WITH: DARWIN, CHARLES. 1809-1882. The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals. London: John Murray, 1873. 7 heliotype plates (3 folding). Publisher's cloth. First edition, tenth thousand.RARE SECOND EDITION, revising and expanding. "Amongst the most remarkable of all the early photographically illustrated books" (Martin Kemp, The Human Animal in Western Art and Science. Chicago, 2007). The 1862 original edition of Duchenne was the first medical book with photographic illustrations of living subjects. Duchenne describes the 9 "synoptic tables," containing 144 separate photographic images, on the pages following the plates. Darwin was allowed by Duchenne to copy these photographs for his book, and duly gave credit for Duchenne's careful study and its contribution to the study of human physiology. Garrison-Morton 1862 (first edition of first title).