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GOBINEAU, JOSEPH-ARTHUR, Comte de. Essai sur l'inégalité des races humaines. Paris: Firmin Didot Frères 1853-1855.
4 vols., 8vo, 215 x 132mm. (8 1/2 x 5 3/16in.), contemporary mauve half cloth gilt over dark sprinkled paper boards, spine pigment gently light-softened, foxed.
FIRST EDITION, half-titles.
PMM 335.
"Hitler's French Mentor....Fortified by the innate arrogance of a scion of an ancien regime family and by his observations as an envoy in the Near and Middle East, he [Gobineau] championed the theory, since entirely disproved, that 'race' is a permanent and immutable phenomenon, and he proclaimed the unchallengeable superiority of the white race over all others. Within the white race, Gobineau assigned the supreme position to the 'nordic'--or as he fatuously called them 'aryan'--peoples who, thanks to their praiseworthy qualities of hardiness and lust for power, are predestined to rule the rest of mankind"--Printing and the Mind of Man.
Provenance: B. Guestalla, bookplates at front--Weillschott, bookplates at back. (4)
4 vols., 8vo, 215 x 132mm. (8 1/2 x 5 3/16in.), contemporary mauve half cloth gilt over dark sprinkled paper boards, spine pigment gently light-softened, foxed.
FIRST EDITION, half-titles.
PMM 335.
"Hitler's French Mentor....Fortified by the innate arrogance of a scion of an ancien regime family and by his observations as an envoy in the Near and Middle East, he [Gobineau] championed the theory, since entirely disproved, that 'race' is a permanent and immutable phenomenon, and he proclaimed the unchallengeable superiority of the white race over all others. Within the white race, Gobineau assigned the supreme position to the 'nordic'--or as he fatuously called them 'aryan'--peoples who, thanks to their praiseworthy qualities of hardiness and lust for power, are predestined to rule the rest of mankind"--Printing and the Mind of Man.
Provenance: B. Guestalla, bookplates at front--Weillschott, bookplates at back. (4)