Item #016247 Recherches Philosophiques sur les Americains, ou Memoires Interessants pour fervir a l'Histoire se l'Espece Humaine. Tome II. Bound with: Dissertation sur L'Amerique et les Americains, contre les Recherches Philosophiques. Cornelius De Pauw, Dom Pernety.

Recherches Philosophiques sur les Americains, ou Memoires Interessants pour fervir a l'Histoire se l'Espece Humaine. Tome II. Bound with: Dissertation sur L'Amerique et les Americains, contre les Recherches Philosophiques.

London and Berlin: No publisher, 1770. Cloth. Good. Item #016247
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Library binding, red cloth. 366, (28); 136 pp. All text in French. Volume two only of this study of the people, climate and animals of North America. By Cornelius de Pauw, a Dutch philosopher, who despite never visiting America, considered himself an expert on the country. He insisted that Native Americans were inferior to Europeans, degraded by an inferior climate, and asserted that Europeans that moved to America also became degraded. He routinely dismissed evidence to the contrary, such as the Aztec calendar. With a rebuttal to de Pauw's work by Dom Pernety. GOOD condition. Ex-library with call numbers on the spine, interior pastedowns and stamping. Minor soiling, scuffing and fading to the covers. Small dampstain to the rear cover. (See Sabin for a variety of records for these works).

Price: $100.00

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