Lectures on the Physiology, Zoology, and Natural History of Man, delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons
London: Benbow, 1822. 2nd ed., pp.xi, (i), 500, b/w plates, 7 engraved & folding, foxing & off-setting to most plates and end pages (as usual in this publication), contemporary ink inscr to title page, full leather, gilt decorated borders, leather spine label, spine creasing and split along lower edges, cnrs bumped, o/w very good condition.
William Lawrence's work was considered blasphemous when first issued in 1819 and was soon withdrawn from circulation, hence, very few copies of the first edition exist today. In 1822 the radical political publisher William Benbow issued a pirated edition as is this copy. Charles Darwin owned one of Benbow's unauthorized edition and was obviously impressed with Lawrence's work, citing it five times in The Descent of Man (1871). Item #94691
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