Orang-Outang, sive Homo Sylvestris: or, the Anatomy of a Pygmie Compared with that of a Monkey, an Ape and a Man. To which is added, a Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies, the Cynocephali, the Satyrs, and Sphinges of the Ancients. Wherein it will appear that they are all either Apes or Monkeys, and not Men, as formerly pretended. By Edward Tyson M.D. ...

Name: Orang-Outang, sive Homo Sylvestris: or, the Anatomy of a Pygmie Compared with that of a Monkey, an Ape and a Man. To which is added, a Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies, the Cynocephali, the Satyrs, and Sphinges of the Ancients. Wherein it will appear that they are all either Apes or Monkeys, and not Men, as formerly pretended. By Edward Tyson M.D. ...
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[Tyson, Edward (1650-1708)].
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London, Printed for Thomas Bennet ... and Daniel Brown ... and are to be had of Mr. Hunt ... M DC XCIX [1699]. 4:o. (12), 108, (1), 58 pp., 8 engraved & folding plates, (2) pp. advertisments. Contemporary full leather with blind stamped borders on both covers, rebacked spine with gilt title and decor. Plates strengthened or tissue repaired at folds. Foxing/spotting occur, partly quite heavily, throughout. Stamp ‘Corden Thompson, M.D.’ on imprimature leaf. Owners signature ‘F.S. Hadham‘ recto imprimature leaf. From the library of Denis Leigh, with his name label on fly-leaf.

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Garrison-Morton 153 and 300. Printing and the Mind of Man 169. Wing T3598. Norman 2120. First edition. Imprimature leaf bound before main title. Engraved plates by Van der Gucht. The earliest work of importance on comparative morphology. Tyson compared the anatomy of man and monkeys, and placed the chimpanzee between the two. This was the origin of the idea of the ‘missing link’. The theory that man shares some common ancestry with the apes was not clearly expounded until the publication of Huxley's Man's place in nature in 1863 and Darwin's Descent of man in 1871.