DENIKER, Joseph. Races and peoples. - Lot 299

DENIKER, Joseph. Races and peoples. Paris, Masson, 1926. In-8, publisher's percaline over boards, cloth spine. 750 pages, 1 f.n.ch. (publisher's catalog). 1 black frontispiece photograph, numerous photographs and reproductions of black drawings in text. Tear and lack of cloth on spine, small stains on boards, one leaf torn (pages 39 / 40). Revised and considerably enlarged second edition with 340 illustrations and 2 maps of this comparative study of races by Joseph Deniker, Doctor of Science, librarian at the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. Anthropologist and naturalist Joseph Deniker is best known for having established the first comprehensive classification of European races. This essay classifies different peoples according to their morphological, ethnic and sociological characteristics. The author then traces the racial genealogy of the peoples of each continent. Suitable condition.