[Rarebooks] FS: Early Hand-Colored Set: "The first treatise on geographical anthropology"

[Charles Agvent]

STUART, Martinus. DE MENSCH, ZOO ALS HIJ VOORKOMT OP DEN BEKENDEN 
AARDBOL. Amsterdam: J. Allart, 1802-1807. First Edition. Six octavo 
(5-2/4" x 8-3/4") volumes bound in original paper-covered boards 
lettered in black on the spines. Illustrated with a hand-colored 
frontispiece in the first volume, hand-colored vignettes on each title 
page, 41 hand-colored plates with tissue guards, and 2 uncolored folding 
plates, complete as issued. The fine and delicately executed 
illustrations engraved by L. Portman after Jacques Kuyper depict various 
ethnic groups, often quite inaccurately, with chapters on the 
inhabitants of Australia, America (including Mexico and Greenland), 
Africa, and the Pacific islands (including Hawaii). Landwehr: STUDIES IN 
DUTCH BOOKS WITH COLORED PLATES 447/448: "The first treatise on 
geographical anthropology"; Lipperheide Ma9. Fine, fresh set, quite 
scarce in this original condition. (#020731)        $1,500

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