James Cowles PRICHARD,
Histoire naturelle de l'homme comprenant des recherches sur l'influence des agens physiques et moraux considérés comme causes des variétés qui distinguent entre elles les différentes races humaines (…)[Natural History of Man, including inquiries into the influence of physical and moral agents considered as the causes of the varieties which distinguish the different human races from one another (…)]
Baillière|Paris 1843|14 x 23.3 cm|2 volumes reliés
First edition of the French translation, illustrated with 40 plates outside the text (35 finely hand-coloured), together with 90 wood-engraved vignettes in the text (cf. Sabin 65478. See Printing and the Mind of Man, no. 303, for the third English edition in five volumes.)
Some light spotting; small loss to the first leaf of volume II, affecting the text with the loss of a few words; library shelf labels covering the publisher’s name, printed bookplates and library shelf numbers to the title-pages.
Contemporary half calf, the smooth spines decorated with gilt and blind fillets, black morocco lettering- and volume-pieces; joints cracked and restored, some rubbing to the spines;
€850