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TYSON, Edward (1650-1708). Orang-Outang, sive Homo Sylvestris: or, the anatomy of a pygmie compared with that of a monkey, an ape, and a man - A philological essay concerning the pygmies, gynocephali, satyrs and sphinges of the ancients. London: Thomas Bennet, and Daniel Brown, for Mr Hunt, 1699.
4o (270 x 207 mm). 8 engraved folding plates after William Cowper by Michael Vander Gucht. (Small tears to some plates at folds, last plate cut into, and with hole and tear repaired affecting Figure 16, some browning and staining throughout). Contemporary blind-tooled speckled calf (rebacked, corners renewed, binding dried and worn). Provenance: Wynfrid Laurence Henry Duckworth (1870-1956) zoologist and anthropologist (inkstamp); Army Medical Library, Ceylon (inkstamp on 2 plates).
FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST IMPORTANT WORK ON COMPARATIVE MORPHOLOGY. Tyson established the connection of anthropoid apes between man and monkey, the first formulation of the idea of the "missing link", which was more fully explored by the works of Huxley and Darwin in the 19th century. The "typical pygmy" which Tyson placed between man and monkey was in fact an African chimpanzee. Garrison-Morton 153; NLM/Krivatsy 12028; P.M.M. 169; Wing T-3598; Norman 2120.
4o (270 x 207 mm). 8 engraved folding plates after William Cowper by Michael Vander Gucht. (Small tears to some plates at folds, last plate cut into, and with hole and tear repaired affecting Figure 16, some browning and staining throughout). Contemporary blind-tooled speckled calf (rebacked, corners renewed, binding dried and worn). Provenance: Wynfrid Laurence Henry Duckworth (1870-1956) zoologist and anthropologist (inkstamp); Army Medical Library, Ceylon (inkstamp on 2 plates).
FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST IMPORTANT WORK ON COMPARATIVE MORPHOLOGY. Tyson established the connection of anthropoid apes between man and monkey, the first formulation of the idea of the "missing link", which was more fully explored by the works of Huxley and Darwin in the 19th century. The "typical pygmy" which Tyson placed between man and monkey was in fact an African chimpanzee. Garrison-Morton 153; NLM/Krivatsy 12028; P.M.M. 169; Wing T-3598; Norman 2120.