Oct 11, 2001 - Sale 1908

Sale 1908 - Lot 440

Price Realized: $ 69
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 100 - $ 200
SMITH, SAMUEL. An Essay on the Causes of the Variety of Complexion and Figure in the Human Species.<> 8vo, modern boards, spine faded; contents toned. New Brunswick, 1810

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Second edition, revised and enlarged. "In the first significant anthropoogical work produced in America, Smith argued that racial differences were produced by environment, contradicting the prevalent theories of separate creations of discrete and different races"--Garrison-Morton 156.1 (1787 Philadelphia original edition). Austin 1777.<