Las razas humanas. Tomo segundo

Ratzel, Friedrich (1844-1904)

Las razas humanas. Tomo segundo

Work originally written in German by Friedrich Ratzel

Barcelona

Montaner y Simón, Editores

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Establecimiento Tipográfico-Editorial de Montaner y Simón

1889

Barcelona : Montaner y Simón, Editores, 1889

Spanish

Illustrated edition

Las razas humanas

Razas humanas

Las razas humanas

German

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Commercial illustrated edition published in several volumes

668 pages

Numerous wood-engraved illustrations integrated into the text

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Large format; small folio

32 × 24 cm

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Good-quality industrial paper

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Double-column letterpress printing, with excellent ink quality and notable sharpness of the illustrations

Original publisher’s stamped cloth binding

Red, black and gilt

Rich polychrome and gilt decoration featuring geographical and ethnographic motifs, classical medallions, vegetal ornaments and cartographic representations

Decorated spine with gilt ornamental compartments, stamped title and indication of the second volume

Second volume of Friedrich Ratzel’s ethnographic and anthropological work. It develops a comparative study of numerous peoples of the world, with particular attention to the native peoples of America, the peoples of Madagascar, and other ethnic groups described according to the geographical and ethnological criteria of the late nineteenth century. The volume contains numerous engravings depicting human types, clothing, weapons, customs and objects of material culture.

Work originally written in German by Friedrich Ratzel.

Profusely illustrated edition with ethnographic engravings.

Corresponds to the second volume of a work published in several volumes.

Preserves the original publisher's binding issued by Montaner y Simón.

Representative example of the major illustrated publishing productions of late nineteenth-century Barcelona.

Ethnography

Anthropology; human geography; ethnology; indigenous peoples of America; Madagascar; history of peoples; traditional cultures; history of anthropology

2011

Very good overall condition; original binding well preserved; bright gilt decorations; clean interior with minor age-related foxing

Library of Alfred Gallart i Genis

Copy corresponding to Volume II. No signature, dedication, bookplate or ownership marks identified. Preserves the complete original polychrome publisher’s binding, characteristic of the luxury editions produced by Montaner y Simón in the late nineteenth century. The volume maintains aesthetic and material uniformity with Volume I of the same work.