51 - [Ethnology] [EDWARDS (William Frederic)]. Memoirs of the Ethnological Society. Paris, Librairie orientale de Mme veuve Dondey-Dupré, 1841–1845. 2 in-8 volumes, later brown half-shagreen with corners, covers preserved, gilt head. Browned and foxed pages.

[Ethnology] [EDWARDS (William Frederic)]. Memoirs of the Ethnological Society. Paris, Librairie orientale de Mme veuve Dondey-Dupré, 1841–1845. 2 in-8 volumes, later brown half-shagreen with corners, covers preserved, gilt head. Browned and foxed pages. First edition, complete with all published material, of this rare publication by the Ethnological Society of Paris, founded in 1839 by the physician and naturalist William Frederic Edwards (1777–1842), one of the pioneers of French ethnology. Published in four parts combined into two volumes, the work includes, notably, studies on the Guanches of the Canary Islands by Sabin Berthelot, the Parsis, the Sikhs of India, the Fulani (Foulahs) of Africa, as well as research on the peoples of Polynesia, their languages, origins, and customs. Volume I: Fold-out map and 1 double-page plate. Volume II: Fold-out map, 1 fold-out plate, and 1 double-page plate.