1857 Indigenous Races of the Earth; Or, New Chapters of Ethnological Enquiry

Description

Colour Plates, First Edition, Folding Plates, Illustrated, Leather Binding, Rebound, Very Scarce

The first edition of this scarce ethnological study.

Featuring 'monographs on special departments of Philology, Iconography, Cranioscopy, Palaeontology, Pathology, Archaeology, Comparative Geography, and Natural History'.

Illustrated with a chromolithographic frontispiece, eight further vignettes and chromolithographs, further vignettes, and illustrated ethnographical table.

Collated, lacking the chart 'illustrative of the geographical distribution of monkeys'.

A collaborative work from a number of authors, this volume features surveys the peoples of different continents with descriptions of their physical characteristics, languages and cultures, and includes striking chromolithographic plates of racial “types.”

Rebound in half calf, with endpapers renewed. With two tipped in leaves of former owner's notes to the rear, and with a former owner's inscription to title page head.

The book reflects the period’s attempts to systematise knowledge of global populations within a comparative framework.