Les Blancs d'Afrique : Avec figures, cartes et photographies de types
Paris: Octave Doin et Fils, Éditeurs, 1910.
Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Item #15876
Library stamps/marks/labels, both hinges starting, 5" spine rear edge tear, 1" spine front edge tear, toned, bookplate of Oric and Natica Bates, Harvard Library of the Peabody Museum donation label, 1910 owner's signature, wear. Still solid hardcover.; French language. Anthropological survey and race classification of the inhabitants of North Africa. Henri Weisgerber, an Alsatian Jew, was deputy director of l'Ecole anthropologie, and advised the French military in its selection of native colonial troops. This copy was purchased in Cairo by Oric Bates, and was donated by his widow to Harvard. "Oric Bates was an American archaeologist and author. Bates worked at multiple institutions including the Boston Museum of Fine Arts where he served as the director of the Egyptian Department and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography where he was a curator in African ethnology." - Wikipedia. Bates died of the Spanish flu during his World War One service. An uncommon and interesting work of anthropology and race theory. ; Encyclopédie Scientifique : Bibliothèque d"Anthropologie : Deuxième Partie; Ex-Library; Vol. 9; x, v, 405, xii pages.
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