Comprising Inquiries into the Modifying Influence of Physical and Moral Agencies on the Different Tribes of the Human Family.
The Natural History of Man Comprising Inquiries into the Modifying Influence of Physical and Moral Agencies on the Different Tribes of the Human Family.
Hippolyte Bailliere, 1848.
Third edition. 8vo. Bound in half black morocco over black pebble-grained cloth, lettered in gilt to the spine. Top edge gilt. Fifty coloured and five monochrome steel engraved plates and ninety-seven wood engravings in the text. A good copy, with some wear to the hinges and browning to some plates. Small abrasion to plate facing p206.
Prichard's influential pre-Darwinian study aimed to categorise all races of humans, while holding to the Biblical notion that all races share a common ancestor and weren't divisible as separate species.
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