[Rarebooks] FS: EXTRAORDINARY COPY OF SMITH'S "ESSAY" ON RACE, 1810

[Norman Kane]

SMITH, SAMUEL STANHOPE.
AN ESSAY ON THE CAUSES OF THE VARIETY OF COMPLEXION AND FIGURE IN THE HUMAN SPECIES . . . SECOND EDITION, ENLARGED AND IMPROVED.
New Brunswick: Simpson & Co.; N.Y.: Williams & Whiting, 1810.
Old calf, somewhat worn, rebacked in calf, marbled end papers.  With the FernieBield bookplate of John Phin, in the blank border of which is the added signature of the pioneer Afro-American collector, Arthur Schomburg. On the fly leaf is Schomburg's presentation inscription of the book to the noted Afro-American scholar/historian Carter Woodson, known as "the Father of Black History."    An extraordinary association copy of this first important American anthropological work. "In his work ... [he] expressed progressive views on marriage & egalitarian ideas about race and slavery. The 2nd edition of his ..."Essay" ... became important as a powerful argument against the increasing racism of 19th Century ethnology."  Austin, “Early American Medical Imprints” p.187.
$ 750.00  ($600.00 to the trade) + postage

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