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Stuart, M. De mensch, zoo als hij voorkomt op den bekenden aardbol. Amst., J. Allart, 1802-1803, 1st ed. (vol. 1 and 2)/ Zaltbommel, J. Noman, 1818, 2nd rev. ed. (vol. 3-6), 6 vols., contemp. handcol. (stipple-)engr. frontisp., 6 different handcol. title-vignettes and 41 handcol. plates, 2 uncol. fold. plates, 20th cent. unif. gilt rexine. - Thumbed and fingersoiled; occas. waterst. and sl. mouldy. = Vols. 3-6 in the rare 2nd edition, not in the usual reference works. Lipperheide Ma9, Tiele 1065 and Landwehr, Dutch books with col. plates 447/448, all listing the 1st (1802-1807) and (supposedly) 2nd edition (1832-1837). "The first treatise on geographical anthropology" (Landwehr). A German transl. was published 1805-1809. The fine plates, all depicting ethnic types, are engr. by L. Portman after Jacques Kuyper.