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1911 - Klemm, G.

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€70 - 100

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27%

Klemm, G. China: The Middle Kingdom. Leipzig: Teubner, 1847. 8°. VI, 527 pp., 1 leaf, with 8 woodcut plates. Contemporary half-leather binding with a pasted original cover (stained and rubbed, edges scuffed). First and only edition. — A rare work by the cultural historian and librarian Gustav Friedrich Klemm (1802–1867). He was one of the first scholars to recognize that the manufacture of tools and the use of fire are the essential characteristics that distinguish humans from the animal kingdom. His ethnological collection formed the foundation for the Museum of Ethnology in Leipzig. - Browned and stained in places.

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Auction details

Auction 146 - Day 2
Thursday, December 10
10:00 AM
Steubenstrasse, 36
75172 Pforzheim, Germany

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