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Lot 324

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

25 March 2015, 11:00 GMT
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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, 8 folding engraved plates (short tears at lower inner margins), license leaf pasted to front free endpaper, contemporary panelled calf, gilt morocco spine label, rubbed [Wing T3598; Garrison-Morton 153; Krivatsy 12025; Nissen ZBI 4194; Norman 2120; PMM 169], 4to (285 x 225mm.), T. Bennet, and D. Brown, 1699

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"The earliest important study in comparative morphology... [Tyson] established a new family of anthropoid apes standing between monkey and man... [he] 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).

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