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Lot #469
Francis Galton

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English Victorian statistician, progressive, polymath, sociologist, psychologist, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, and psychometrician (1822-1911). Signed offprint booklet: Restrictions in Marriage. Studies in National Eugenics. Eugenics as a Factor in Religion. Followed by an Abstract of an Earlier Memoir, Eugenics: Its Definition, Scope and Aims. Memoirs communicated to the Sociological Society. NY: Sociological Society, 1905. Softcover, 6.25 x 9.75, 55 pages. Signed on the front cover in ink, "from Francis Galton." In fine condition, with light creasing and wear, and small holes at the rusty binding staples.

Auction Info

  • Auction Title: August
  • Dates: #527 - Ended May 09, 2018





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