Author: Agassiz, Louis
Title: Sketch of the Natural Provinces of the Animal World and their Relation to the Different Types of Man.
Description: Philadephia: Lippincott, Grambo and Co., 1854. First edition. Pp. (i), lviii-lxxviii, 1 quadruple-page foldout hand-colored chart, 1 hand-colored map. Self-wrappers, bound in early one-quarter green cloth over gray boards with the title neatly lettered on the front board, lg 8vo. Small blind stamp of Donald J. Zinn on the title page. An early work on zoogeography by Agassiz than links different living human groups to different continents. Rare. Some old cellotype on the internal joints of two facing sets of pages, faint water mark on the lower margin of the text; overall a good solid copy in an attractive binding..

Keywords: Great naturalists Louis Agassiz zoogeography biogeography Donald J. Zinn


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