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TYSON (EDWARD)
Orang-outang, sive homo-sylvestris: or, the Anatomy of a Pygmie Compared with a Monkey, an Ape, and a Man, 2 parts in 1, FIRST EDITION, T. Bennet, and D. Brown, 1699

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TYSON (EDWARD)

Orang-outang, sive homo-sylvestris: or, the Anatomy of a Pygmie Compared with a Monkey, an Ape, and a Man, 2 parts in 1, FIRST EDITION, license leaf before title, advertisement leaf at end, 8 folding engraved plates (small tears at folds without loss), modern blindstamped calf, gilt red morocco spine label [Wing T3598; Garrison-Morton 153; Krivatsy 12025; Nissen ZBI 4194; Norman 2120; PMM 169], 4to (288 x 213mm.), T. Bennet, and D. Brown, 1699

Footnotes

"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).

Provenance: Joshua Brookes (1761-1833), 2 different bookplates. "Brookes taught anatomy to approximately 7000 students over a forty-year period... [and was] generally esteemed to be among the best teachers of practical anatomy in London, having the benefit of original specimens rather than pictures" (ODNB). He assembled a vast collection of specimens of human and comparative anatomy, which he displayed in the two upper floors of his house in Blenheim Street. The collection, dispersed in sales in 1828 and 1830, was considered as second only to that of John Hunter.

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