The Eastern Origin of the Celtic Nations
J. C. Prichard & R. G. Latham
From Raven & Gryphon Fine Books, Hackett's Cove, NS, Canada
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From Raven & Gryphon Fine Books, Hackett's Cove, NS, Canada
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since October 30, 2017
About this Item
James Cowles Prichard, born in England in 1786 died in 1848. He was a British physician and ethnologist with broad interests in physical anthropology and psychiatry. At the time of his death he was president of the Ethnological Society and a Fellow of the Royal Society. His influential Researches into the Physical History of Mankind touched upon the subject of evolution. The central conclusion of the work is the unity of the human species, which has been acted upon by causes which have since divided it into permanent varieties or races. The work is dedicated to Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, whose five races of man are adopted. Prichard differed from Blumenbach and other predecessors by the principle that people should be studied by combining all available characters. And this was some 150 years before the discovery of DNA. He was an early pioneer in the effort to determine where one s roots were launched and evolved. Well ahead of our frenzy on this issue today. From 1845, Prichard served as a Medical Commissioner in Lunacy. He also introduced the term "senile dementia . He originally published this book The Eastern Origin of the Celtic Nations in 1831. In this book, His theory was that the Celtic languages are allied by language with the Slavonian, German and Pelasgian (Greek and Latin), thus forming a fourth European branch of Indo-European languages. Robert Gordon Latham, (1812-1888), was a follower of Prichard and along with Prichard, Latham criticized Cuvier's use of the "Caucasian race" concept; and he preferred to avoid the term "race", referring instead to "varieties of man". This book was first published by Oxford University in 1831, and this first printing is very scarce. This edition was published by Houlston and Wright & Bernard Quaritch, London, 1857. While Houlston and Wright were publishers this was an early and unusual activity by Quaritch who had moved to England from Germany. From about 1860 to 1900 Quaritch became the greatest rare and antiquarian bookseller in the world. This firm is still in existence today. This edition is almost as scarce as the 1931 printing. The book, 387 pages, bound in green blind embossed cloth is in very good condition. It is square and solid and is in remarkably good condition. A label with a previous owners name and location (Nova Scotia) is affixed to the inside of the front cover. Seller Inventory # 8273
Bibliographic Details
Title: The Eastern Origin of the Celtic Nations
Publisher: Houlston and Wright & Bernard Quaritch
Publication Date: 1857
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
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