De la pluralité des races humaines: essai anthropologique ... Deuxième édition
Paris: Victor Masson et fils, 1864. 8vo, pp. [8], 234, [2]; original printed green wrappers very slightly chipped, else near fine. Dedicated to the British biologist and palaentologist Sir Richard Owen. Pouchet (1833-1894) was "a French naturalist and anatomist. He served as a professor of comparative anatomy in the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle. He was also involved in marine biology studies, with an interest in fisheries and cetaceans ... He was a prime advocate of polygenism, and was the author of an anthropological work titled De la Pluralité des races humaines ... which was translated into English as The Plurality of the Human Race in 1864 by the Anthropological Society." (Wikipedia). Item #69701
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