Description: [029464] Latham, R.G. Norway, and the Norwegians. London, England: Richard Bentley, 1840. First Edition. Complete in two volumes, [4] + 303 + [2] + 310 pages. Robert Gordon Latham (1812 - 1888) British ethnologist and philologist whose "...1833 visits to Hamburg and Copenhagen, followed by a year of language studies in Norway, led to his delightful Norway and the Norwegians...his consuming passion was ethnology - the study of the varieties of mankind and its languages, and the enigma of human origins. In Man and his Migrations (1851), seven years before the first pronouncement by Darwin and Wallace on evolution by natural selection, Latham speculated on human development from 'some species... lower in the scale of Nature'..." (Ann Margaret Ridler in the ODNB) Approx. 5" x 7 3/4" size; bound in full polished speckled blond calf leather, spines with contrasting gilt title labels, decoratively gilt as are the rolled-tool edges of the covers; marbled endpapers and all edges marbled to match, binding signed Riviere with their stamp. Some edge, tips wear & rubbing to the bindings; top board of Vol. II detached; contents fresh and clean; in good condition.
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Binding: Leather
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition
Author: ROBERT GORDON LATHAM
Publisher: Richard Bentley
Topic: TRAVEL EXPLORATION
Subject: NORWAY
Original/Facsimile: Original
