Edward Clodd - De Geschiedenis van den Oorspronkelijken Mensch. Uit het Engelsch. [...]

Edward Clodd - De Geschiedenis van den Oorspronkelijken Mensch. Uit het Engelsch. Met een woord vooraf van Dr. B.C. Goudsmit. Met Afbeeldingen - Zutphen - W.J. Thieme & Cie - 1897 - 1st edition - [214] pp - Cloth binding - 11 x 17 cm.

Condition: Good - with some names and stamps of reading libraries on the flyleaf.

Antiquarian edition of a Dutch translation of 'The Story of Human Origins' (1893); a popular scientific book about evolution and prehistoric times, written by the English anthropologist Edward Clodd (1840-1930). Illustrated with black and white drawings. With index. Bound in typical late 19th century industrial book binding.

¶ Included in the index are anthropomorphic apes, Avebury, burial sites, barbaric ideas about dreams, superstitions about spear points, Charles Darwin, death and the worship of the dead, druids, single-celled animals, burial mounds, boundary stones, dolmens, menhirs, skulls, Stonehenge, tattoos, totems, water and witches, and the Black Stone at Mecca.

Also includes an image of Lalla Rookh (Trucanini or Truganini, ca. 1812-1876); believed to be the last full-blooded Aboriginal of Tasmania (after her people were exterminated).