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An essay on the causes of the variety of complexion and figure in the human species. To which are added strictures on Lord Kaim's discourse, on the original diversity of mankind.

Title
An essay on the causes of the variety of complexion and figure in the human species. To which are added strictures on Lord Kaim's discourse, on the original diversity of mankind. By the Reverend Samuel Stanhope Smith ...
Author
Smith, Samuel Stanhope, 1750-1819.
Publication
Philadelphia, Printed and sold by Robert Aitken, 1787.

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Ford Collection.
Description
2 p.l., 111, 31 p.; 8vo.
Subject
  • Kames, Henry Home, Lord, 1696-1782
  • American Philosophical Society
  • Anthropology > Early works to 1870
  • Monogenism and polygenism > Early works to 1800
  • Human skin color > Early works to 1800
  • Skin > Color of
  • Monogenism and polygenism
Note
  • Delivered in substance before th Philosophical Society in Philadelpha, February 28, 1787, and the whole published at the request of that society.
Indexed In (note)
  • Evans
Source (note)
  • of Sidney Lapidus;
Provenance (note)
  • Copy in Sc Rare C 15-55 (Lapidus Collection) has image of artist at work in studio affixed to lower free end leaf.
Binding (note)
  • Copy in Sc Rare C 15-55 (Lapidus Collection) bound in quarter brown leather with decorative green paper boards.
Call Number
*KD 1787 (Smith, S. S. Essay on the causes of the variety of complexion)
LCCN
20019820
OCLC
5701206
Author
Smith, Samuel Stanhope, 1750-1819.
Title
An essay on the causes of the variety of complexion and figure in the human species. To which are added strictures on Lord Kaim's discourse, on the original diversity of mankind. By the Reverend Samuel Stanhope Smith ...
Imprint
Philadelphia, Printed and sold by Robert Aitken, 1787.
Indexed In:
Evans 20712
Provenance
Copy in Sc Rare C 15-55 (Lapidus Collection) has image of artist at work in studio affixed to lower free end leaf. NN
Binding
Copy in Sc Rare C 15-55 (Lapidus Collection) bound in quarter brown leather with decorative green paper boards. NN
Source
Gift; of Sidney Lapidus; 2015. Copy in Schomburg Center, Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Books
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Added Author
Ford Collection.
Lapidus, Sidney, 1937- donor.
Research Call Number
*KD 1787 (Smith, S. S. Essay on the causes of the variety of complexion)
Sc Rare C 15-55 (Lapidus Collection)
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