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Jacob, Nicolas Henri - Hugues, Pietro
Natural history of monkeys drawn by Mr. N.H. Jacob...and engraved by Mr. L. Rados, 1812
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€ 400 - 600
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€ 516
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Milan, near Ferdinando Artaria, against the r. Teatro della Scala - [at] Gioachimo Bettalli and company, contrada del Cappello n.o 4031 - [at] Fratelli Ubicini, lane de' Servi, n.o 506 - [at] Hugues, publisher, contrada de' Pattari n.o 569, 1812. In 2nd. 440 x 330 mm. Frontispiece in Italian engraved in an architectural frame, frontispiece in typographical French and German in geometric frames, engraved Italian text, typographical text in French and German, Dedication to Eugene Napoleon signed by Jacob and Ugues, preliminary speech in three languages , 3 plates depicting: human fetus compared with guenone fetus, Wurmb monkey skeleton, series of monkey skulls, then numbered 70 plates depicting monkeys, binding in half parchment and modern cardboard.
Specialist Notes
"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. The part in which a courageous ape-man continuum is described which aims to strengthen the idea of the animal nature of our species (naturalistic anthropology) is interesting. Anthropomorphic apes are classified on the basis of their prognathism and the orang-utan, the first "human-sized" ape, "occupies almost the last place in the large family of apes". If we consider that the Origin of the Specieswill only be published in 1859, or almost 50 years later, we understand how a work of this kind can be fully defined as a forerunner of the theories Darwinian evolutionary theories.
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