Orang-Outang, sive Homo Sylvestris, or, the Anatomy of a Pygmie [issued with] A Philological Essay concerning the Pygmies ... wherein it will appear that they were all either Apes or Monkeys; and not Men, as formerly pretended
by Tyson, Edward
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
London: Dawsons of Pall Mall. (Thomas Bennet, 1699)1966. Facs of the 1699 edition, Quarto, two parts in one, Part I: pp.(vi), (12, Intro), (xii, preface), 108; Part II: pp.(ii), 58, (ii, adverts), b&w fronts. port, 8 folding plates after William Cowper, orig quarter leather, cloth bds, gilt titled to spine, cnrs bumped and some fading & fraying to rear board, otherwise near fine condition In 1699, more than a century before the birth of Charles Darwin, a London physician named Edward Tyson dissected a chimpanzee. The chimp had been taken alive and shipped from what is now Angola to England - it reached Tyson as a cadaver. Tyson's seminal work on anatomy, for which he became known as the father of comparative anatomy and the first anatomical study of a great ape. "The earliest important study in comparative morphology ... he established a new family of anthropoid apes standing between monkey and man ... Tyson did not foresee the theory of evolution; but his work contributed substantially to its formulation and in that sense he was a forerunner of Blumenbach, Buffon, Huxley and Darwin" (PMM). Edward Tyson and Charles Darwin were related, having a common ancestor in Richard Foley (1580-1657) Facsimile Edition. Quarter leather.
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- Bookseller
- Muir Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 95132
- Title
- Orang-Outang, sive Homo Sylvestris, or, the Anatomy of a Pygmie [issued with] A Philological Essay concerning the Pygmies ... wherein it will appear that they were all either Apes or Monkeys; and not Men, as formerly pretended
- Author
- Tyson, Edward
- Illustrator
- William Cowper (Illus)
- Format/Binding
- Quarter leather
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Facsimile Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Dawsons of Pall Mall
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- (Thomas Bennet, 1699)1966
- Keywords
- Anatomy, Animals, Ape, Chimpanzees, Darwin, Ethnology, Histology, Human Biology, Medicine, Philology, Pygmies
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Muir Books
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MUIR BOOKS. Western Australia's largest and leading rare, secondhand, antiquarian and out of print bookshop, established in 1973 and managed by Rob & Janet Muir together with Tara Surry. We have over 50,000 books in stock. We are located in Perth (precinct of Northbridge), walking distance from the State Library, Art Gallery and Museum.
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