DISSSERTATION SUR L'AMERIQUE & LES AMERICAINS, CONTRE LES RECHERCHES PHILOSOPHIQUES DE M. DE P***.
Berlin: 1764 [i.e., 1774?]. [7], 8-116 pp. [bound with] [ De Pauw, Corneille]: DEFENSE DES RECHERCHES PHILOSOPHIQUES SUR LES AMERICAINS, PAR M. DE P***, TOME TROISIEME. Berlin: 1774. iv, 232 pp. Original calf with gilt-decorated spine [lightly rubbed], and gilt-lettered morocco spine label. Very Good.
These two volumes, bound together, contain Pernety's critique of De Pauw's Recherches Philosophiques..., and De Pauw's response. A variety of printings occurred. "De Pauw labors to prove the inferior scale upon which nature has organized men, animals, and vegetation in America. The character of the American Aborigines receives the principal force of his attack. Dom Pernety, with forcible arguments, defended them in his 'Dissertation.'" Field. Pernety "disputes De Pauw's attempt to prove America's natural inferiority to other parts of the world." Howes. De Pauw responds in the Defense...
Howes P238, 142, 141. Field 420. Thompson [Louisiana] 1407. Sabin 59242. Item #25059
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