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Indigenous races of the earth; (1857)

Nott, Josiah Clark, 1804-1873, [from old catalog] ed, Gliddon, George Robins, 1809-1857, [from old catalog] joint ed, Maury, Louis Ferdinand Alfred, 1817-1892. [from old catalog], Pulszky, Ferencz Aurelius. [from old catalog], Meigs, James Aitken, 1829-1879. [from old catalog] · Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & co.; London, Trübner & co. · leaf 225

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r art and poetry,from 500 b. c, to about 300 a. d. By a strange coincidence, it is thesame period in which Phidias and Praxiteles and Lysippus, and theRoman artists of Augustus and Trajan, flourished in Europe. Still more graceful, and more serene, are the Hindoo sculptures ofthe isle of Java,… … Buddha. Fig. 92. excellent reliefs; which may be placed among the best productions of art. The following drawing of a colossalhead of Buddha [91]2U in a volcanic stone,now in the Glyptothec of Munich, maygive an idea of the elegance and femininecharacter of those sculptures. The great bulk of the…

Ethnology · Language and languages · Race · Craniology · Acclimatization · Monogenism and polygenism · Monkeys

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