The Natural history of man : comprising inquiries into the modifying influence of physical and moral agencies on the different tribes of the human family / by James Cowles Prichard, M.D. F.R.S. M.R.I.A., President of the Ethnological Society, corresponding member of the National Institute, and of the Royal Academy of Medicine, and of the Statistical Society, of France, member of the American Philosophical Society; etc.

  • Prichard, James Cowles, 1786-1848.
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The Natural history of man : comprising inquiries into the modifying influence of physical and moral agencies on the different tribes of the human family / by James Cowles Prichard, M.D. F.R.S. M.R.I.A., President of the Ethnological Society, corresponding member of the National Institute, and of the Royal Academy of Medicine, and of the Statistical Society, of France, member of the American Philosophical Society; etc. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : H. Bailliere, 1855.

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2 volumes (xxiv, 343 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates; vii, 1 unnumbered page, 343-720 pages, 42 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

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4th ed. / ed. and enl. by Edwin Norris.

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Includes index
Some of the engravings are signed. Eight are engraved by J. Harris after George Catlin; others are engraved by J. Bull. some after Branwhite
"A series of six ethnographical maps, large folio, coloured, has been published to accompany this work, price, in cloth boards, 1l. 4s."--Half t.p. verso

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