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Milan, with Ferdinando Artaria, against the r. Scala theater - [at] Gioachimo Bettalli and comp.o, contrada del Cappello n.o 4031 - [at] Ubicini brothers, lane de' Servi, n.o 506 - [at] Hugues, publisher, district de' Pattari n.o 569, 1812. In 2nd. 440 x 330 mm. Title page in Italian engraved in architectural frame, ftitle page in typographical French and German in geometric frames, text in engraved Italian, text in French and typographical German, Dedication to Eugene Napoleon signed by Jacob and Ugues, preliminary speech in three languages, 3 plates depicting: fetus human compared with fetus of guenone, skeleton of monkey of Wurmb, series of skulls of monkeys, then numbered 70 plates depicting monkeys, binding in half parchment and modern cardboard.
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"The rare first edition of an important treatise" (Wood). RARE FIRST EDITION, issued in installments, of one of the most important texts of nineteenth-century naturalistic anthropology.
Fascinating natural history with a rich iconographic apparatus representing the monkeys known until the end of the eighteenth century. Interesting is the part in which a courageous monkey-man continuum is described who wants to reinforce the idea of the animal nature of our species (naturalistic anthropology). The anthropomorphic apes are classified according to their prognathism and the orang-utan, the first ape "at eye level", "occupies almost the last place in the large family of apes". If one thinks that the Origin of Species will only come out in 1859, or almost 50 years later, one understands how such a work can be fully defined as a forerunner of Darwinian evolutionary theories b>.
Nissen 2080. - Wood S. 40
Fascinating natural history with a rich iconographic apparatus representing the monkeys known until the end of the eighteenth century. Interesting is the part in which a courageous monkey-man continuum is described who wants to reinforce the idea of the animal nature of our species (naturalistic anthropology). The anthropomorphic apes are classified according to their prognathism and the orang-utan, the first ape "at eye level", "occupies almost the last place in the large family of apes". If one thinks that the Origin of Species will only come out in 1859, or almost 50 years later, one understands how such a work can be fully defined as a forerunner of Darwinian evolutionary theories b>.
Nissen 2080. - Wood S. 40
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