PRICHARD, Histoire naturelle de l'Homme, 1843
PRICHARD, James Cowles.
Histoire naturelle de l'Homme.
Paris, J-B Baillière, 1843.
Two 8vo (212x134 mm), ix-(3)-416 pages and 13 plates / (4)-404 pages and 26 plates. binding : Modern quarter calf, gilt spine in five compartments;. Watertstain on a corner on volume I.
First french edition.
Translated from English by Roulin from the work The natural history of man (1843), popularization work by Prichard based on his Researches into the physical history of man.
Prichard concluded that all human races were part of the same species and originally shared the same black skin.
Complete with the 40 engravings announced (on 39 plates), most of them in color representing the different peoples of the world.
references: PMM [303 (third ed.) : "His conclusion that all human races of one species and one family was added tot the greatly enlarged second edition of the Researches"] Garrison-Morton [159 (first ed.)].
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