Natural History of Man: Showing his three aspects of plant, beast, and angel

I. Plant life, comprising the nutritive apparatus. II. Beast life, or soul, the phrenological faculties. III. Angel life, or spirit, Jehovah's likeness in man.

Brown blind embossed cloth 12mo, 295pp + (4) ads. 1851, stated stereotype edition, earliest year recorded in print. A Good copy only with persistent tidemarks and foxing; loss to the cloth at the spine ends, boards exposed at corners. Tear to the bottom corner of the two advertising leaves, no loss of text. Ownership signature of John Floyd, then his daughter, Anna, who studied at Vassar; pencil notes to ffep. OCLC locates 2 copies in the US and 6 of the 1852 reprint. No records in RBH.

A convergence of Christianity, Phrenology and Spiritualism, with the expected coverage of phrenological organs, etc. Among the tour through all things physiological and philosophical, the "three aspects" ultimately manifest in distinctions of morality. A peek at the table of contents attests to the scope and Newman's broad source material, from John Bunyan to Millerites, narcotics, color perception, spirit rapping, and the future of wickedness.