Author: LATHAM, ROBERT GORDON
Title: Descriptive Ethnology Vol's I and II complete; Asia, Europe, Africa, India (original edition of 1859
Description: London : John van Voorst, 1859.. First edition (48 chapters divided into hundreds of world peoples from the earliest history) Vol I :VIII + 516 p. VIII & Vol II :506 p. Vol II: renewed strap with leather spine with repaired tear in spne. HARDCOVER: (Rebound in red cloth. Ex-lib. With labels on spine, stamps on endpapers, title pages, Title pages reinforced with acid-free tape, else VERY GOOD) ¶ EXTREME RARE and SOUGHT AFTER this ORIGINAL edition. Robert Gordon Latham (1812-1888) was an English ethnologist and philologist. In 1852 he was given the direction of the ethnological department of The Crystal Palace. He took ethnology to be, in the main, the part of historical philology that traced the origin of races through the genealogical relationships of languages. As a baseline he used the three-race theory of Georges Cuvier. he preferred to avoid the term "race", referring instead to "varieties of man".

Keywords: anthropology & ethnography origin of races geneaology linguistics philology Geography Geographical Geographic natural history


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