[ANTHROPOLOGY]. -- QUETELET, Lambert Adolphe Jacques (1796-1874). Physique sociale ou essai sur le dveloppement des facults de l'homme. Brussels, Paris & St Petersburg, 1869. 2 volumes. 8o (231 x 157 mm). Folding lithographed plate (Vol. 2). Contemporary half morocco, gilt spines, marbled boards. Second edition. Quetelet used statistics to find the "average man" to plot divergences from a norm within a society or race. With a long introduction by Sir John Herschel, the astronomer. Many of Quetelet's concepts had been borrowed from the study of astronomy. Norman 1770. -- QUETELET. Anthropomtrie ou mesure des diffrents facults de l'homme. Brussels & Paris, 1871. 8o (255 x 168 mm). 2 folding plates, text illustrations. Original buff printed wrappers, uncut (minor losses and tears to spine). Second edition. Norman 1771. -- BERTILLON, Alphonse (1853-1914). Identification anthropomtrique. Instructions signaltiques. Melun, 1885. 8o (233 x 150 mm). Numerous lithographed figures, one double page and in color. A folded plate headed "Socit d'Anthropologie. Instructions gnrales", with 54 colored strips pasted to the recto (showing different skin colors) and 20 colored circles pasted to the verso (showing different eye colors) laid in. Contemporary green sheep, gilt-lettered spine (joints and extremities worn). FIRST EDITION. The first full description of "Bertillonage", the criminal identification system used in France and other countries before finger-printing. The system used key body measurements (e.g., head length and breadth, middle finger length) and precise recordings of characteristics such as eye and skin tones. Norman 224. -- FUHLROTT, Johann Carl (1804-1877) & Hermann SCHAAFHAUSEN (1816-1893). "Menschliche Ueberreste aus einer Felsengrotte des Dssenthals. Ein Beitrag zur Frage ber die Existenz fossiler Menschen". In: Verhandlung des naturhistorischen Vereines der preussischen Rheinlande und Westphalens, 1859; (pp. 131-144 missing). Bonn, 1859. 2 volumes. 8o. Original buff printed wrappers, uncut and largely unopened (Part 2 broken). Incomplete. PMM 342; Norman 847. -- WEIDENREICH, Franz (1873-1948). The skull of Sinanthropus pekinensis; a comparative study on a primitive hominid skull. In: Palaeontologia sinica, new series D, no. 10; whole series no. 127 (1943), pp. [i]-xxi, [1]-300 (whole number). New York, 1943. 4o. Original gray printed wrappers. Provenance: Herbert M. Evans (printed presentation slip bound before first leaf), inscribed on front wrapper, dated 20 April 1944). FIRST EDITION, journal issue, PRESENTATION COPY. Garrison-Morton 214; Norman 2193. (5)