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NOTT, JOSIAH CLARK; GLIDDON, GEORGE ROBINS; et al. Types of Mankind; or, Ethnological Researches, based upon the Ancient Monuments, Paintings, Sculptures, and Crania of Races . . . Illustrated by Selections from the Inedited Papers of Samuel George Morton, M.D. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Morton; 3 folding lithographed plates, the first hand-colored; numerous text illustrations; folding table. Half-title. first english edition. * Indigenous Races of the Earth; or, New Chapters of Ethnological Inquiry. 11 lithographed plates, including 2 folding and hand-colored. 4to, first in contemporary 1/2 calf, rebacked retaining original backstrip, spine worn, second in original cloth, spine faded, ends chipped, short crack in rear joint. Philadelphia, 1854; 1868
The authors subscribed to the notions of polygenesis, or multiple origins of racial diversity, and the fundamental inequality of races. Their ideas were influential among pro-slavery adherents in the years before the Civil War. The folding plates in the second work comprise a comparative "Ethnographic Tableau" of cranial types and a "Chart illustrative of the Geographical Distribution of Monkeys, in Relation to that of Some Inferior Types of Men." Sabin 56040, 56038.
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