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A philological essay concerning the pygmies of the ancients. / By Edward Tyson, M.D. F.R.S., A.D. 1699. Now edited, with an introduction treating of pigmy races and fairy tales, by Bertram C.A. Windle.
Library at the Katz Center - Stacks GN681 .T9 1894
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tyson, Edward, 1650-1708.
- Series:
- Bibliothèque de Carabas ; vol. 9.
- Bibliothèque de Carabas ; vol. 9
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pygmies.
- Dwarfs.
- Fairies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Robertson, William John (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- civ, 103 pages ; 18 cm.
- Manufacture:
- Edinburgh and London : Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Published by David Nutt in the Strand, 1894.
- Notes:
- "Five hundred and fifty copies of this edition have been printed, five hundred of which are for sale."
- Reprint of the essay originally published in the author's Orang-Outang, sive homo sylvestris: or, The anatomy of a pygmie compared with that of a monkey, an ape, and a man. London, 1699.
- Includes reproductions of original t.-p. and special half-title.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has bookplate of William John Robertson.
- OCLC:
- 2323584
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