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NEANDERTHAL MAN FUHLROTT, JOHANN CARL; and SCHAAFFHAUSEN, HERMANN. Menschliche Überreste aus einer Felsengrotte des Düssenthals. Ein Beitrag zur

NEANDERTHAL MANFUHLROTT, JOHANN CARL; and SCHAAFFHAUSEN, HERMANN. Menschliche Überreste aus einer Felsengrotte des Düssenthals. Ein Beitrag zur Frage über die Existenz fossiler Menschen. in: Verhandlung des naturhistorischen Vereines der preussischen Rheinlande und Westphalens, Volume 16, Number 1/2, pages 131-44, and Number 3/4, pages 145-53, including lithographed plate. Together, 2 volumes. 8vo, original wrappers, spine ends chipped, second spine cracked; uncut and unopened; 1/4 morocco slipcase. Bonn, 1859

  • Notes: first edition of Fuhlrott's account of bones discovered in a cave in the Neander Valley in the Rhineland, which he believed to have belonged to prehistoric ancestors of modern humans, a view initially disputed but later confirmed. Norman 847; Printing and the Mind of Man 342.

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