Trichologia Mammalium, or, A Treatise on the Organization, Properties and Uses of Hair and Wool
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Book Description
First edition. Title continues “Together With an Essay Upon the Raising and Breeding of Sheep." A very good copy from the collection of the Royal Microscopical Society (bookplate, and ink-stamps to preliminary leaves); later re-spined with new end-papers, preserving original boards worn at lower corners. First and last leaves faintly foxed and lightly soiled and/or marked. Illustrated with 100 figures.
Dealer Notes
Browne was a Philadelphia ethnographer who studied the classes of human hair to differentiate the races. From the results he concluded that there were three separate races of man [and two of sheep], those with hair (the Native Americans and Asians; and the Europeans), and those with wool (guess which “race” had wool).
A reviewer from the ‘Journal of the Ethnological Society of London’ rightly concluded that “I cannot, however, occupy your time by reference to a work of so unsatisfactory a character.” Still, the book was seized upon by proponents of slavery to help prove that “Negroes” were inferior and separate.
A reviewer from the ‘Journal of the Ethnological Society of London’ rightly concluded that “I cannot, however, occupy your time by reference to a work of so unsatisfactory a character.” Still, the book was seized upon by proponents of slavery to help prove that “Negroes” were inferior and separate.
Author
Peter A. Browne
Date
1853
Binding
Original boards; new spine
Publisher
Philadelphia: J. H. Jones, Printer.
Condition
Very good
Pages
179 + 1 p. errata
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