The Natural History of Man by De Quatrefages, A. (Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Breau) - 1875: A Course of Elementary Lectures

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1875. First American edition. Hardcover. Good/No jacket. 152 pages plus advertising, illustrated with black and white drawings. Translated from French into English by Eliza A. Youmans. A study of the races of humans. Brick red cloth binding with black decorations and titles on front cover and spine, brown end papers. Some edge wear, a little spotting, corners and spine ends bumped and a bit frayed, former owner's name "Edwin L. Morgan, M. D." with notes and dates 1880 and 1881 on front end papers and title page, a little staining along edges of pages and some spotting of interior pages, which are lightly tanned, binding tight.