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Venus physique, contenant deux dissertations, l'une, sur l'origine des hommes et des animaux: et l'autre, sur l'origine des noirs / [Anon].

European perspectives

Skin : on the cultural border between self and the world / Claudia Benthien ; translated by Thomas Dunlap.

The colors of mankind : the range and role of human pigmentation / by Spencer L. Rogers.

Medical ethnology / by Chas. E. Woodruff.

16 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 1 color plate ; (4to)

Dissertatio secunda de sede et caussa coloris Aethiopum et caeterorum hominum. Accedunt icones coloribus distinctae / [by J. Ladmiral].

Sources of science

The earthly Venus / by Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis ; translated from Venus physique by Simone Brangier Boas ; with notes and an introduction by George Boas.

John Harvard library

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

An essay on the causes of the variety of complexion and figure in the human species / by Samuel Stanhope Smith ; edited by Winthrop D. Jordan.

Medical Heritage Library

On the functions of the colouring matter of the skin in the dark races of mankind / by Robert Mortimer Glover.

vi, 3 unnumbered pages, 6-100 pages ; 19 cm (12mo)

An essay on the human color : in three parts / by David B. Slack.

The cause of colour among races : and the evolution of physical beauty / by Wm. Sharpe, M.D.

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Venus physique, contenant deux dissertations, l'une, sur l'origine des hommes et des animaux: et l'autre, sur l'origine des noirs / [Anon].

Skin : on the cultural border between self and the world / Claudia Benthien ; translated by Thomas Dunlap.

The colors of mankind : the range and role of human pigmentation / by Spencer L. Rogers.

Medical ethnology / by Chas. E. Woodruff.

Dissertatio secunda de sede et caussa coloris Aethiopum et caeterorum hominum. Accedunt icones coloribus distinctae / [by J. Ladmiral].

The earthly Venus / by Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis ; translated from Venus physique by Simone Brangier Boas ; with notes and an introduction by George Boas.

An essay on the causes of the variety of complexion and figure in the human species / by Samuel Stanhope Smith ; edited by Winthrop D. Jordan.

On the functions of the colouring matter of the skin in the dark races of mankind / by Robert Mortimer Glover.

An essay on the human color : in three parts / by David B. Slack.

The cause of colour among races : and the evolution of physical beauty / by Wm. Sharpe, M.D.

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Venus physique, contenant deux dissertations, l'une, sur l'origine des hommes et des animaux: et l'autre, sur l'origine des noirs / [Anon].

Skin : on the cultural border between self and the world / Claudia Benthien ; translated by Thomas Dunlap.

The colors of mankind : the range and role of human pigmentation / by Spencer L. Rogers.

Medical ethnology / by Chas. E. Woodruff.

Dissertatio secunda de sede et caussa coloris Aethiopum et caeterorum hominum. Accedunt icones coloribus distinctae / [by J. Ladmiral].

The earthly Venus / by Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis ; translated from Venus physique by Simone Brangier Boas ; with notes and an introduction by George Boas.

An essay on the causes of the variety of complexion and figure in the human species / by Samuel Stanhope Smith ; edited by Winthrop D. Jordan.

On the functions of the colouring matter of the skin in the dark races of mankind / by Robert Mortimer Glover.

An essay on the human color : in three parts / by David B. Slack.

The cause of colour among races : and the evolution of physical beauty / by Wm. Sharpe, M.D.

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