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A Treatise on Man and the development of his faculties; now first translated into English
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A Treatise on Man and the development of his faculties; now first translated into English

by QUETELET, Lambert Adolphe Jacques

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Edinburgh: William and Robert Chambers, 1842. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (248 x 155 mm). x, [5]-126 pp., text printed in two columns, 7 lithographed plates at end. Bound in 20th-century brown library cloth, gilt-lettered spine (minor rubbing to extremities, shelf number added to spine). Translator's name added in ink below title, small chip to lower corner of title, lightly browned throughout, light marginal dust-soiling. Provenance: Anatomy Dept. Library, Cambridge University. ---- EXCEPTIONALLY RARE FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of "Sur l'homme et le développement de ses facultés", Quetelet's foundation work of social statistics. This edition, translated by Robert Knox, contains a new preface by the author to defend his work from objections brought against it subsequent to the publication of the Paris edition of 1835. Quetelet was among the first to apply statistics to social science. His goal was to understand the statistical laws underlying such phenomena as… Read More
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Sur l'homme et le développement de ses facultés, ou essai de physique sociale. Two parts in one...
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Sur l'homme et le développement de ses facultés, ou essai de physique sociale. Two parts in one volume

by QUETELET, Lambert Adolphe Jacques

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Paris: Bachelier, 1835. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo (209 x 130 mm). [4], xii, 327 [1]; [4], viii, 327 [1] pp., including half-titles and 6 folding plates, of which 4 are engraved and 2 lithographed. Near contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spine with two lettering pieces lettered in gilt, sprinkled edges, marbled endpapers (upper hinge split but cords holding, slight rubbing to extremities). Text slightly browned in margins, occasional minor spotting, one plate somewhat foxed, tear in p. 323/4 of first part slightly affecting frame of table, a few clean short tears elsewhere, few pages with finger-soiling, lower blank corner of 3 leaves and blank fore-margin of one leaf torn with loss, a few light pencil markings. Very good copy. ---- Kress C.4017; Einaudi 4601; Palgrave III, 247; Garrison-Morton 1698.1; DSB XI, p.237. - EXCEPTIONALLY RARE FIRST EDITION of Quetelet's foundation work of social statistics. He was among the first… Read More
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