L'Homme Americain - Including 15 Engraved Plates, 1839

Native American , Archaeology

Beschreibung

[Native American Archaeology] Alcide D'Orbigny. L'Homme Americain (de L'Amerique Meridionale) Considere Sous Ses Rapports Physiologiques Et Moraux. Pitois-Levrault: Paris, 1839. First edition. Folio size, Measures 14 x 10 inches. Include 15 large engraved plates on scientific collections and information related toearly south American Inhabitant and Civilizations: Archaeology, Zoology, physical and human Geography, Geology, and Ethnography of the early occupant of the Americas. Including 1 hand-colored plate on early South American art. This is the atlas volume only from the first edition of the study by the naturalist and French explorer Alcide D'Orbigny visited the Americas: Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador and Colombia and returned to France with an enormous collection of more than 10,000 natural history specimens. The 15 plates represent the most interesting skulls, mummies, objects and various artifacts he found during his scientific expedition. Three quarter leather and cloth, gilt spine with raised bands, marbled edges and endpapers. With the decorative bookplate of archaeologist and collector A.D. Passmore. Rubbing to boards. Light foxing. Overall very good condition.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 18375

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• Titel: L'Homme Americain - Including 15 Engraved Plates, 1839
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: 1. Auflage
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