PIERQUIN DE GEMBLOUX (Charles Claude)

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PIERQUIN DE GEMBLOUX (Charles Claude)
Letter to General Bory of St. Vincent, on the unity of the human species. Bourges, Imprimerie de P. A. Manceron, 1840. In-8, brochure sewn from a thread, partly uncut, untrimmed. Original edition of this indictment against polygenism and the idea of a raciological classification of man. Pierquin de Gembloux (1798-1863), a doctor, polygraph and monogenist born in Brussels, wrote this opuscule in response to L'Homme, a zoological essay on the human race, a treatise on raciological anthropology published by the naturalist Bory de Saint-Vincent in 1825, then republished in 1827 and 1836 (see Christophe Brun, "Découper la Terre, inventorier l'homme. Le planisphère de Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1827" in Monde(s), n°3, May 2013, annexes 1 and 2). Copy as it appeared, with the forged title at the top of the page, probably from the author's hand: Souvenir à M. Anatole de... (?)
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