Vacation tourists and notes of travel in 1860

by Francis Galton

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First edition

Cambridge: Macmillan & Co., London, 1861. First edition, 8vo, pp. viii, 483, 1 , 23, 1 ads; bottom of spine slightly cracked else very good and sound in original pictorial green cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine. Galton, the cousin of Charles Darwin and the originator of eugenic studies, whose seminal work, Finger Prints London, 1892 , led to the adoption of a entirely new system of criminal identification, was interested in tourism and

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