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London: T. Bennet; D. Brown, 1699. Hardcover. Acceptable. . Detached boards, full leather cover with heavy wear and rubbing. Folding sheets with figures 6-8 & 13-17 laid in. Bound with The Anatomy of a Pygmy Compared with that of a Monkey, and Ape, and a Man. To which is added, The Anatomy and Description of a Rattle-Snake... &c. of 1751. Folding sheets of Tab. 1 (fig. 1-3) & Tab. 2 (fig. 4-12) on rattlesnakes, folding shett on figures of Mexico Musk-Hog, single page sheet of figures of the round-worm. Missing several plates. An incomplete copy, in poor condition.

London: Dawsons of Pall Mall. (Thomas Bennet, 1699)1966. Facs of the 1699 edition, Quarto, two parts in one, Part I: pp.(vi), (12, Intro), (xii, preface), 108; Part II: pp.(ii), 58, (ii, adverts), b&w fronts. port, 8 folding plates after William Cowper, orig quarter leather, cloth bds, gilt titled to spine, cnrs bumped and some fading & fraying to rear board, otherwise near fine condition In 1699, more than a century before the birth of Charles Darwin, a London physician named Edward Tyson dissected a chimpanzee. The chimp had been taken alive and shipped from what is now Angola to England - it reached Tyson as a cadaver. Tyson's seminal work on anatomy, for which he became known as the father of comparative anatomy and the first anatomical study of a great ape. "The earliest important study in comparative morphology ... he established a new family of anthropoid apes standing between monkey and man ... Tyson did not foresee the theory of evolution; but his work contributed… Read More

London: Printed for Thomas Bennet.and Daniel Brown, 1699 First edition of this landmark of comparative anatomy. Folio (11 1/4 x 8 3/8 inches). {12}, 108, {2, publisher's ads} pp. Complete with all eight folding engraved plates by M. Vander Gucht after William Cowper. Contemporary speckled blind-panelled dark brown calf, red morocco gilt lettered label. Lower half of first plate supplied in expert facsimile. Previous owner's signatures and armorial bookplate. Overall, a very attractive copy; well-margined, clean and in a lovely contrmporary binding. "Comparative zoology was largely forgotten between the publication of the writings of Aristotle and the revival of the study of comparative anatomy at the end of the sixteenth and during the seventeenth century by writers such as Fabricius, Ruini, Perault, Grew and Blasius. Edward Tyson, physician at Bridewell and Bethlehem Hospitals, was the first to publish monographs on the subject, the chief of which is the book on the orang-outang, with… Read More

London: Thomas Bennet and Daniel Brown, 1699. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 1st edition. Tyson's groundbreaking treatise, the first significant study in post-renaissance comparative morphology, the forerunner of all the science that connected man to his earlier ancestors, and the underpinning for Huxley's Man's Place in Nature (1863) and Darwin's Descent of Man (1871). It is in this book that Tyson established a new family of anthropoid apes standing between monkey and man, and though the results he deduced from his anatomical descriptions proved misguided, he was the first to recognize that man was a close relative of certain lower animals. Tyson did not foresee the theory of evolution, but this work stimulated others to ponder the possibility over the next 160 years, and thus contributed meaningfully to its formulation. Full dark red morocco, signed in gilt on the front inner dentelle by Sangorski (typically plain binding, as was Sangorski's custom on science books), title page foxed and… Read More

London: Printed for Thomas Bennet ... and Daniel Brown ... and are to be had of Mr. Hunt at the Repository in Gresham-College, 1699. First edition. PMM169 - THE FIRST WORK TO DEMONSTRATE THE STRUCTURAL RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN MAN AND APE. First edition, and a fine, tall copy, of "Tyson's anatomy of the 'Orang-outang' (actually a young chimpanzee), which was the first work to demonstrate scientifically the structural relationships between man and anthropoid ape" (). It was "the earliest important study in comparative morphology ... [Tyson] established a new family of anthropoid apes standing between monkey and man ... [he] did not foresee the theory of evolution, but his work contributed substantially to its formulation and in that sense he was a forerunner of Blumenbach, Buffon, Huxley and Darwin" (PMM). "For Tyson the term Orang-Outang meant 'man of the woods.' In 1641 the Dutch surgeon and anatomist Nicholas (or Nicolaes) Tulp had used the same words to describe a chimpanzee, which he illustrated in… Read More