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The nature of men derived from the characters of famous historical persons View picture(s) 1 CAPELLA, Galeazzo. L'anthropologia. Venice, heirs of d'Aldo Romano, & d'Andrea d'Asola, 1533. 8vo. 19th-century vellum, with red and green morroco title labels on spine. With woodcut printer's device of Aldus on title, and on verso of last blank. 74, [1] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Anthropology  Education  Greek & Latin  History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare treatise on Oceania and Australian Aborigines View picture(s) 2 FOLEY, Antoine Édouard. Quatre années en Océanie. Paris, J. Hetzel, J.B. Baillière, 1866-76. 2 volumes bound as 1. 8vo. 19th-century half roan. Volume 2 with 1 map and 5 woodcut illustrations in text. [4], 300; [4], 370, [10] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Anthropology  Australia & New Zealand  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Criticism impossible to publish in France View picture(s) 3 GAZON D'OURXIGNÉ, Sébastien- Marie-Mathurin. Essai historique et philosophique sur les principaux ridicules des differentes nations. Suivi de quelques poesies nouvelles. Par M. G... Dourx... Amsterdam (= Paris?), Chez Rey, 1766. 2 parts in one volume. 12o. Contemporary marbled calf, gilt & ribbed spine with black title label lettered in gold, central gilt arms of M.J. Diodati, dark green sprinkled edges. (4), 152; (2), 80 p. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Anthropology  Bindings  Philosophy  Politics  Social Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of the last great work by the famous German original philosopher View picture(s) 4 KANT, Immanuel. Anthropologie in pragmatischer Hinsicht abgefasst. Königsberg, Friedrich Nicolovius, 1798. Orig. boards. XIV, 334 (2 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Anthropology  Philosophy  Printing and the Mind of Man  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A lengthy voyage to Rio View picture(s) 5 PRIOR, James. Voyage along the eastern coast of Africa, to Mosambique, Johanna, and Quiloa; to St. Helena; to Rio de Janeiro, Bahia, and Pernambuco in Brazil, in the Nisus frigate. London, for Sir Richard Philips and Co., 1819. 8vo. Later wrappers. With 2 folding engraved maps and 1 full-page aquatint plate. VI, 114 [i.e. 112] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Anthropology  Brazil  English  Geography  Geography & Demography  Travel & Voyages  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Mysterious Arabs View picture(s) 6 RICHARD, Charles. Les mystères du peuple Arabe. Paris, Challamel Ainé, 1860. 12mo. Contemporary half citron morocco, spine ribbed in 6 compartments, one with blue morocco title-label and 5 with gilt emblems of the Ottoman Empire, the crescent moon with the star, gilt upper edges (R. PETIT). XXIV (last blank), 242 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Anthropology  Arabia  Cartography  Middle East  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Seventeenth-century research into the historicity of the Pied Piper of Hamelin View picture(s) 7 SCHOOCKIUS, Martinus. Fabula Hamelensis, sive disquisitio historica, qua ostenditur fabulis accenseri debere, quod refertur de infausto exitu puerorum Hamelensium, qui inciderit in annum a Christo nato MCCLXXXII. Praemissa est dissertatio generalis de judicio circa historicas narrationes instituendo: atque in examine fabulae, distincte respondetur D.M. Samuelis Erich libello, qui inscribitur Exodus Hamelensis. Groningen, Frans Bronckhorst, 1659. 8vo. Contemporary vellum, blue sprinkled edges. With woodcut printer's device on title. (16), 212 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Anthropology  Fable Books  Folklore  Germany  Middle Ages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First Dutch anthropological treatise with 41 hand-coloured plates of ethnic types View picture(s) 8 STUART, Martinus. De mensch, zoo als hij voorkomt op den bekenden aardbol. Amsterdam, Joh. Allart, 1802-1807. 6 vols. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spines ribbed and gilt, sides covered with marbled paper, marbled edges. With a hand-coloured etched/stipple-engraved frontispiece, 6 etched/stipple-engraved title-pages, each with a different handcoloured vignette, 41 hand-coloured etched/stipple-engraved plates by Lodewijk Portman after Jaques Kuyper and 2 uncoloured folding engraved plates. (4), 234, (2); VIII, 238, (2); IV, 257, (1); IV, 267, (1); IV, 277, (1); IV, 301, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Africa  America [Central]  America [South]  America, North  Anthropology  Asia  Australia & New Zealand  Dutch  Ethnography  Pacific  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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