Solly. The Social Life of Monkeys and Apes.

by ZUCKERMAN

£300 · Offered by Henry Sotheran Ltd

ZUCKERMAN, Solly. The Social Life of Monkeys and Apes. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner Co. Ltd. 1932. 8vo. Original green cloth and dustwrapper; pp. xii, 357, [7, publisher's catalogue], 24 b w photographic plates; wrapper a little chipped to extremities, internally extremely clean, very good. First edition. Solly Zuckerman's fascinating treatise on the social organisation of monkeys and apes was his most notable pre-war work. It is pioneering in its close observation of primate life, and also in its challenge to the supposition that ape society in some way echoes early human society. SKU: 2121954

• Binding: Hardcover

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