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| 035 | # | # | $z 7891 + 7892 (previous RA accession numbers) |
| 041 | 0 | # | $a eng |
| 044 | # | # | $a uk $a us $a fr $a sp |
| 100 | 1 | # | $a Prichard, James Cowles |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | $a The natural history of man ; comprising inquiries into the modifying influence of physical and moral agencies on the different tribes of the human family |
| 250 | # | # | $a Fourth edition, edited and enlarged by Edwin Norris |
| 260 | # | # | $a London ; New York $b H. Baillière, Publisher, 219, Regent Street, and 290, Broadway, New York, U.S. $c 1855 |
| 300 | # | # | $a 2 volumes (Vol. I, xxiv, 343 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates; Vol. II, 1 unnumbered page, 343-720 pages, 42 unnumbered leaves of plates) : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm. |
| 500 | # | # | $a `Illustrated with sixty-two coloured plates engraved on steel, and one hundred engravings on wood.' [title page]. |
| 500 | # | # | $a The Natural History of Man was first published in parts in 1841-42, and in book form in 1843. It was the condensed version of Prichard's five-volume Researches Into the Physical History of Mankind (1836-47). |
| 500 | # | # | $a Includes 53 hand colour lithographs and 4 one colour tinted lithographs. Some of the engravings are signed. Eight are engraved by J. Harris after George Catlin; others are engraved by J. Bull. some after Branwhite. |
| 500 | # | # | $a `A series of six ethnographical maps, large folio, coloured, has been published to accompany this work, price, in cloth boards, 1l. 4s.' [Half title page verso]. |
| 505 | 0 | # | $a Book I. Explanation to the engravings on steel -- Index to the engravings on wood -- Editor’s preface -- Introductory note -- Biographical notice of the author -- I. Introductory observations -- II. Bearings of the question -- III. Of genera, species, and varieties -- IV. Determination of species - Phenomena of hybridity -- V. Of mixed races of men - history of several mixed human races -- VI. General survey of the phenomena of variation in tribes of animals and of plants -- VII. Phenomena of variation continued - various breeds of domestic animals in the old continent -- VIII. Theory of variation in the species of animals and of plants - Nisus formativus - different manifestations of this tendency. 1. Varieties in organic structure. 2. In the functions of the animal economy. 3. In psychological characters -- IX. Concluding observations on the theory of the variation or degeneration of animals -- X. Of the diversities of organisation in different races of men; and first, of varieties in the complexion and structure of skin -- XI. On the structure of human hair -- XII. Of the varieties of form or configuration - and on the subdivision of races into particular groups -- XIII. Of the principal forms of the skull - and of the modes of measuring it adopted by anatomists -- XIV. Of the variety in structure and the proportions of the bones discovered in different races -- Book 2. I. Of the distribution of human races into groups - and of the arrangement adopted in the following chapters -- II. Of the Syro-Arabian or Semitic race -- III. Of the Egyptian race -- IV. Of the Ancient Egyptians -- V. Of the Arian race -- VI. Colonies of the Arian race in Europe -- VII. Of the five great nomadic races -- VIII. Of the Ichthyophagi of Northern Asia, or borders of the Icy Sea -- IX. Chinese and Indo-Chinese races -- X. Of the aboriginal races of India -- X*. Remains of aboriginal nations preserved in mountainous tracts of the West -- XI. Of the African races inhabiting countries bordering on Egypt -- XII. Abyssins, or races inhabiting the highlands of Abyssinia -- XIII. Of the wooly-haired races of Eastern Africa -- XIV. Of the race of Galla -- XV. Of the Soudanian races, or Black nations inhabiting the interior of Africa -- XVI. South African nations |
| 563 | # | # | $a Plumb cloth, blind stamped decorated borders on the boards with gilt pictorial portrait illustrations on the upper covers, repeat in blind on the bottom board, gilt spine decorations and titles: `Prichard / Natural History of Man / Vol. I (Vol. II) / Edited by Edwin Norris / R.A.' |
| 653 | # | # | $a Ethnology |
| 653 | # | # | $a Anthropology |
| 653 | # | # | $a Lithographs - Chromolithographs - Colour printing |
| 653 | # | # | $a Stipple engraving and aquatint |
| 653 | # | # | $a Wood-engravings |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Norris, Edwin $e editor |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Catlin, George $e source artist |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Branwhite, Nathan Cooper $e source artist |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Harris, John $e engraver |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Bull, J. $e engraver |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Bailliere, Hippolyte $e publisher |
| 710 | 2 | # | $a Wilson and Ogilvy $e printer |