Natural history of the human race.
With 10 plates of colored engravings. Transl. P. E. L. b. p. N. P. (Pawel Eustachy Lesniewski). Volume II. Warsaw 1843, Nakł. S. Orgelbrand Bookseller. 8, pp. [4], 379, [4], 1 plate in color lithograph, card binding. period.
Lacking spine, no rubbing of binding, 9 plates with engravings missing, yellowing on pages. Volume II offered includes: The natural history of the Negroes in particular; On the slave trade and its abolition; On the diseases and organic growth of the Negroes; On the origin and causes of human varieties; On cretins and cretinism; On the diseases which assail the human race in particular in every climate and among the different nations of the globe; On the principal endemic diseases of every people. Julien-Joseph Virey (1775-1846) - French naturalist and anthropologistl one of the forerunners of evolutionist anthropology.
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