BlUMENBERG WernerLivre Rare Book
The Anthropological Treatises of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach with Memoirs of him by Marx and Flourens and an Account of His Anthropological Museum by Professor R. Wagner and the Inaugural Dissertation of John Hunter M.D. on the Varieties of Man.
1865PW1079London:: Longman Green Longman Roberts & Green 1865. 1865. Five parts in one volume. 8vo. xiv 2 406 22 10 pp. 4 plates 2 folding; a few pages roughly opened first few leaves nicked on outer margin archival repairs. Original half dark purple morocco marbled boards gilt-lined raised bands gilt spine title top edge gilt; upper corner dented. Occasional pencil marginalia. Library sticker/label removed from ffep. Very good. First editions in English. Johann Friedrich Blumenbach was a German naturalist and anthropologist whose work on comparative anatomy greatly impacted the development of anthropology as a science in the 19th century. He was invited to examine Egyptian mummies at the British Museum. He did six dissections. "Blumenbach. . believed he could deduce all manner of details – race sex and beauty – from the smooth calciferous plates of the human skull. What he bel`ieved he found in terms of racial types was decidedly intermediate. The maxillae bones of the upper jaw were 'prominent but by no means so much as a true Guinea face; and not more so than is often seen on handsome negroes and not seldom on European countenances.'" - Michael F. Robinson The Lost White Tribe: Explorers Scientists and the Theory that Changed a Continent. Oxford University Press 2016. Contents: Memoir of the author; On the Natural Variety of Mankind; Contributions to Natural history; Remarks on an Hippocratic Macrocephalus; An account of the Blumenbachan Museum;. . On the varieties of man 1775 by Hunter. The physician and lecturer Karl Friedrich Heinrich Marx here contributes a biography of Blumenbach. Professor Wagner gives an account of the Blumenbachan Museum. Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, 1865. hardcover books
