R. Verneau - Les anciens patagons - 1903

Les Anciens Patagons. Contribution à l'étude des races précolombiennes en Amérique du Sud. Published by order of S.S.P. Prince Albert I.
Verneau (Dr. R.).
Imprimerie de Monaco, 1903. First edition. A high volume printed on watermarked and grounded paper. Quarto, 342 pages; 15 heliogravure boards on hard cardboard with a legend sheet next to it. 71 in text figures. Cardboard binding-on the publisher with the weapons of Monaco. Uncut.
This beautiful monograph by Verneau, taken from the collections brought to Europe by Count H. de La Vaulx in the 1890s, is a major work on the Patagonians. A significant research work produced in an expensive way.
It is divided into three sections:
• Preuves anthropologiques trouvées dans les archives historiques
• Examen détaillé des caractéristiques physiques des Patagoniens indigènes
• Etude ethnographique approfondie.
Size: 28.5 x 24.5 x 4.5 cm
Weight: 1.9 kg
Dream publication of a physical anthropologist, An elaborate study of bones and other artefacts collected by the Count of La Vaulx in the 1890s in the Argentine provinces of Rio Negro, Chubut and Santa Cruz. There are 10 plates of skulls, pelvic bones and femurs, 2 plates of arrowheads and scrapers, 1 of shards of pot and 2 of stones worked.