David Mason Fine and Rare Books
Thomas H. HUXLEY. A Manual Of The Anatomy Of Vertebrated Animals.
New York: D. Appleton, 1872. First U.S. edition. 8vo., orig. green cloth,
431pp. With illustrations. A fine copy.
Huxley published this influential textbook “to inform comparative anatomy
students of the relationship between the anatomical structure of the orang-utan,
the gorilla and the chimpanzee and that of man, and the classification and
organization of mammals.” The Victorian Age: An Anthology of Sources and
Documents.”
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