PRICHARD, JAMES COWLES. Researches into the Physical History of Mankind...Third edition. London: Sherwood, Gilbert & Piper, et al, 1836-47. Folding map and 23 plates (including 9 colored). 5 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf gilt, red and black gilt-lettered spine labels, spines slightly darkened, short wormtrack at foot of one joint, small repair to another. Third (and best edition). PMM 303 (this edition). (5)

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PRICHARD, JAMES COWLES. Researches into the Physical History of Mankind...Third edition. London: Sherwood, Gilbert & Piper, et al, 1836-47. Folding map and 23 plates (including 9 colored). 5 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf gilt, red and black gilt-lettered spine labels, spines slightly darkened, short wormtrack at foot of one joint, small repair to another. Third (and best edition). PMM 303 (this edition). (5)

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"It is the third edition of the book that represents Prichard's positive contribution, as it includes all that was known about the various races of mankind, thus forming a synthesis upon which modern ethnological research has been based."--PMM 303.

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