Types principaux des différentes races humaines dans les cinq parties du monde,

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modelés sous la direction du Pr. Baer de St. Petersbourg . St. Petersburg : s.n., [1862]. Portfolio, 500 x 330 mm, original embossed boards with title to front, original silk ties, inner front board with early collection inscription of the Königliche Präparanden-Anstalt (Royal Preparatory Institute), Herborn; containing [12] albumen print photographs, [7] in format 225 x 165 mm, being the complete first series, each plate depicting 16 heads, and the second series (the two additional plates in this series of European and Russian types issued separately at a slightly later date, which are seldom found); and [5] in format 267 x 267 mm (the Supplément , also confusingly called the second series ); all prints are on the original card mounts, 484 x 327 mm, each with short descriptive letterpress (general title above and name of continent that the photograph represents beneath the image) and Médaille à Londres exposition de l instruction publique 1862 at the foot; all of the albumen prints with excellent tonal range, the mounts free from foxing, original tissue guards intact; a fine set. Text in French. Karl Ernst von Baer, born into the Baltic German aristocracy of present-day Estonia, was a distinguished Russian naturalist, biologist, geologist, meteorologist, geographer and explorer, best known for his contributions to embryology. Baer also had a keen interest in ethnology, and assembled an extensive collection of skulls for the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg. He w

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