Corneille de PAUW

PAW Corneille de
Recherches philosophiques sur les Américains, ou Mémoires intéressants pour servir à l'histoire humaine
N. n., Berlin 1771, in-8 (18,7 x 12 cm), 326 (24 of table) pp., 366 (30 of table) pp., 247 pp., 3 volumes, original wrappers
The second edition of the first two volumes and the first edition of the third, which contains Pernety's defense of the Americans and a refutation of Paw. Brunet, 28465.
Contemporary blue wrappers, titled in red and black. Very good copy.
The work consists in a primarily ethnographic discussion of the American continent. It contains a curious account of hermaphrodites in Florida and the pract