Rapports du physique et du moral de l'homme
by CABANIS, P[ierre] J[ean] G[eorges]
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About This Item
Paris: Bechet Jeune, 1824. With half-titles. Quarter morocco-backed marbled boards, gilt spine; sporadic foxing, minor worming and chipping to spine. Contemporary hand-written note tipped in before title of Volume I, pencil annotations on first leaves of each volume and signature of F. Bautros on titles. Cabanis's fundamental work of social ecology articulating the relationship between organisms and their environment, substantially revised and augmented for the first time. This fourth edition is the most complete of the editions published just after his death, containing an extensive list of authors cited, and fifty-seven page index.
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- Bookseller
- Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3397
- Title
- Rapports du physique et du moral de l'homme
- Author
- CABANIS, P[ierre] J[ean] G[eorges]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Bechet Jeune
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1824
- Keywords
- evolution, FRENCH IMPRINTS, sociology, medicine, social ecology, 19th CENTURY; ANTHROPOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY, boston2011
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- Tipped In
- Tipped In is used to describe something which has been glued into a book. Tipped-in items can include photos, book plates,...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Marbled boards
- ...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...