503 - [MAUPERTUIS, Pierre-Louis Moreau de] *Venus Physique*, containing two dissertations: one on the origin of humans and animals, and the other on the origin of Black people. The Hague: J.M. Husson, 1746; 8vo (n.c.; edges of title slightly soiled; some light spotting). 20th-century green cloth, flat spine (very lightly rubbed). Uncut copy. 2nd ed., published only one year after the first, of this curious work combining popular science, philosophy, and erotica by the French mathematician Maupertuis (1698–1759). Ref. STCN. — Cf. Cioranescu 43863.

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