BAUMGÄRTNER (Karl Heinrich). Physiognomice pathologica - Krankenphysiognomik. [Stuttgart, 1839]. Large folio, green half-basin with corners. Lithographed title, 1 f. of table, 72 coloured lithographic plates. First edition of 72 lithographic portraits engraved after life drawings by Karl Sandhaas. Baumgärtner taught medicine in Freiburg, and this work sets out his theories on diagnosis based on the colour of the skin, eyes, lips and facial features. This gallery of portraits shows the manifestations of disease on the faces of patients suffering from asthma, cholera, dysentery, epilepsy, jaundice, hydrocephalus, pleurisy, scurvy, stomach cancer, etc., as well as various forms of mental debility, melancholia, monomania, etc. These portraits, the original drawings of which have recently been discovered, seem to have been made towards the end of the 1820s, shortly before Sandhaas himself was overtaken by melancholy in 1831. A fate that inspired H. Hansjakob to write the short story Wilde Kirschen (1888). A new edition of Physiognomice pathologica in a reduced in-8 format was published in 1842. A fine copy of the atlas alone. Waller 79.