Enquiries Touching The Diversity Of Languages And Religions Through The Chief Parts Of The World

by Edward Brerewood

$500 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

London: printed for Samuel Mearne, John Martyn, and Henry Herringman, 1674. Fourth edition, the first in octavo; 8vo, pp. 32 , 252, 3 ; full contemporary calf, sprinkled edges; extremities worn, spine with a few chips out, but in all a good, sound copy. The earliest book to suggest the now accepted theory of the Asiatic origin of the American aborigine. It went through four editions in England 1614-1674, and six others on the continent. The author devotes

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