M & S Rare Books
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
Document Information
Our
descriptions are copyrighted, and may not be reproduced without permission.
(title 17, U. S. Code).
SMITH, SAMUEL S. An Essay on the Causes of the Variety of Complexion and Figure in the Human Species. To which are added, Animadversions on Certain Remarks made on the first edition...the second edition, enlarged and improved. New-Brunswick, [New Jersey]: 1810. 8vo. 411 pp. Full contemp. calf, very rubbed. Sound, internally clean. $150.00
Austin 1777. LCP/HSP Afro-American Catalogue, 9547. S & S 21369. A landmark work in early American evolutionary thought, and of great significance in the cultural development of American philosophy. Smith adopted an empirical method, employing anthropology in the interest of ethical and political theory.