Louis Figuier - Les races humaines - 1885

Beautiful illustrated edition of 288 wood-engraved illustrations and 8 chromolithographs, of this fine popular-science investigation into the human races, based on the ethnographic theories of 19th-century anthropology -

Figuier, a celebrated naturalist and nephew of the chemist Pierre, ranks among the leading popularizers of the natural sciences of his time in dozens of works also rewarded by the French Academy -

Founder of the Année scientifique et industrielle, he conducted research in hepatic physiology (in controversy with Claude Bernard's theses on the secretion of sugars by the liver) and in biological chemistry at the Sorbonne Chemistry Laboratory -

Louis Figuier - The Human Races - 1885 - Hachette et Cie -
620 Pages.

Very good condition of its binding, the work in its full red publisher’s binding ornamented, slight signs of wear, a few minor defects on the cover, corners worn, gilded edges, smooth decorated spine, gilded title and author name, front boards decorated with a gold ornament, motif in relief on the second board -

Good interior condition, some stains, the work enriched with 288 wood engravings and 8 chromolithographs including a frontispiece, blue endpapers in good condition, a fine copy -

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