James Cowles Prichard - The Natural History of Man

A hand-colored aquatint engraving of a woman from the Aleutian Islands and a woman of the Tuda Race, India from the work The Natural History of Man, by James Cowles Prichard published in 1848.

Prichard was born in 1786 and was an English Physician and Ethnologist. His book Researches into the Physical History of Man was published in 1813. The plate come from the later book. Wikipedia entry.

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La Libraire Villa Browna post about the book.

Books at Amazon.com:

The Natural History of Man: Comprising Inquiries Into the Modifying Influence of Physical and Moral Agencies on the Different Tribes of the Human Family 1843 edition.

The natural history of man: Comprising inquiries into the modifying influence of physical and moral agencies on the different of the human family leather bound edition.

The Natural History of Man: Comprising Inquiries Into the Modifying Influence of Physical and Moral Agencies On the Different Tribes of the Human Family

[the Natural History of Man; Comprising Inquiries Into the Modifying Influence of Physical and Moral Agencies of the Different Tribes of the Human Family.]

Researches into the Physical History of Man original 1813 edition.


Researches Into the Physical History of Man (Classics in Anthropology)
Researches Into the Physical History of Man [microform]