Orang Outang Sive Homo Sylvestris Or The Anatomy Of A Pygmie Compared With That Of A Monkey An Ape And

by Edward Tyson

$16,500 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

London: Printed for Thomas Bennet … and Daniel Brown … and are to be had of Mr. Hunt at the Repository in Gresham-College, 1699. First edition, and a fine, tall copy, of “Tyson’s anatomy of the ‘Orang-outang’ actually a young chimpanzee , which was the first work to demonstrate scientifically the structural relationships between man and anthropoid ape” historyofinformation.com . It was

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