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QUETELET, Lambert Adolphe Jacques (1796-1874). Sur l'homme et le développement de ses facultés ou Essai de physique sociale. Paris: Bachelier, 1835. 2 volumes, 8° (209 x 121mm.) 6 folding plates and diagrams, 4 engraved, the other 2 lithographed. (Occasional light foxing.) Contemporary purple calf, marbled edges (spines faded and rubbed).
FIRST EDITION of Quetelet's principal work which contains a resumé of his statistical researches on the development of the physical and intellectual qualities of man, and on the 'average man', both physically and intellectually considered.
FIRST EDITION of Quetelet's principal work which contains a resumé of his statistical researches on the development of the physical and intellectual qualities of man, and on the 'average man', both physically and intellectually considered.