"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.


Nissen 2080. - Wood S. 40