TYSON, Edward. Orang-Outang, sive Homo Sylvestis: or, the Anatomy of a Pygmie compared with that of a Monkey, an Ape, and a Man.
To which is added a Philological Essay concerning the Pygmies, the Cynocephali, the Satyrs, and Sphinges of the ancients.
Pub. LONDON: Printed for Thomas Bennet at the Half-Moon in St Paul's Church- yard; and Daniel Brown at the Black Swan and Bible without Temple-Bar and are to be had of Mr. Hunt at the Repository in Gresham-Colledge. M DC XCIX. [1699]
Facsimile edition, with an introduction be Ashley Montagu, pub. by Dawson's of Pall Mall, 1966.
4° p4 A2 B-O4 P2 A2 B-H4 I2(-1) ($1-2 signed) 91 leaves; pp. [12] 1-108 [2] 1- 58 [2]. Eight folded plates facing pages N4v (3 plates) O1v, O2v, O4v (2 plates), P2v.
'Tysons's orang-outang was, in fact, a chimpanzee yet his account still remains one of the best descriptions of an anthropoid ape that has been published.' (Russell British Anatomy 825) His anatomy of the chimpanzee was the first really important work on comparative morphology. Tyson was the greatest comparative anatomist of his age. The skeleton of his chimpanzee is still in the British Museum (Natural History).
'Plates are engraved by M. van der Gucht from drawings by William Cowper.' (Russell British Anatomy 825)
Binding in quarter brown leather with brown buckram, good condition, spine sunned. Contents are clean and unhandled, very good. Bookplate: Ex Libris Anatomica K.F. Russell. (286X225mm)

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