Author: BLAIR (William):
Title: Anthropology: Or, The Natural History of Man; with a Comparative View of the Structure and Functions of Animated Beings in General.
Description: London: Printed for T. N. Longman and O. Rees..., 1803. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Large 8vo (in 4s), 225 x 135 mms., pp. viii [ix - x Contents, xi errata, xii blank], 163 [164 adverts], original boards, uncut, and mostly unopened; edges soiled, with spine defective, ex-library with the rubber stamp of The Royal College of Surgery in Ireland on the title-page and an additional note "Arthur Jacob Bequest/ To R. C. S. h/ 1871" at foot of title-page William Blair (1766 - 1822) was a member of various medical societies and for a time edited the London Medical Review and Magazine. The present book began life as a series of lectures on physiology with illustrations from anatomy; they were presented before an eclectic audience of scholars, artists, the nobility and the clergy. Immanuel Kant is usually credited with being the first to publish a major treatise on anthropology in 1799, and Blair and can probably take credit for being the first person to publish a work in English.

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