Orang Outang Sive Homo Sylvestris

by Edward Tyson

$7,500 · Offered by Heritage Book Shop

London: Printed for Thomas Bennet...and Daniel Brown, 1699. Full Description:TYSON, Edward. Orang-outang, sive homo sylvestris. or, the anatomy of a pygmie compared with that of a monkey, an ape, and a man. To whichis added, a philological essay concerning the pygmies, the cynocephali, the satyrs, and sphinges of the ancients. Wherein it will appear that they are all either apes or monkeys, and not men, as formerly

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