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‎Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development. - [COINING ""EUGENICS""]‎

‎London, 1883. 8vo. Original full red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Spine faded and wear to corners and capitals. Inner hinges weak. Internally very fine and clean. Photographic frontispiece (""Specimens of composite portraiture personal and family""). XII, (2), 387 pp., including the four plates, one of which is double-page, illustrated, and coloured. ‎

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‎First edition - in the original full cloth - of this milestone in modern supremacy theory and thought. This work constitutes the magnum opus of eugenics, and it is here that Galton, Darwin's cousin, coined the word ""eugenics"" and initiated the eugenics movement:""[This book's] intention is to touch on various topics more or less connected with that of the cultivation of race, or, as we might call it, with ""eugeni"" questions, and to present the results of several of my own separate investigations.This is, with questions bearing on what is termed in Greek, eugenes, namely, good in stock, hereditarily endowed with noble qualities. This, and the allied words, eugeneia, etc., are equally applicable to men, brutes, and plants. We greatly want a brief word to express the science of improving stock, which is by no means confined to questions of judicious mating, but which, especially in the case of man, takes cognisance of all influences that tend in however remote a degree to give the more suitable races or strains of blood a better chance of prevailing speedily over the less suitable than they otherwise would have had. The word eugenics would sufficiently express the idea"" (p. 24) . Galton was a true polymath and pioneer in several fields. Having been engaged exploration, travel writing, geography, and meteorology, he chose a different path after having ""Origin of Species"" by his cousin Charles Darwin. The book convinced Galton that humanity could be improved through selective breeding. He delved into anthropometrics and psychology and became a pioneer in the fields of fingerprinting, biometrics, etc., and he ended up constructing his own theory of inheritance in which nature and not nurture played the leading role. He actively began promoting eugenics and soon gained important converts.Eugenics was very popular in America during much of the first half of the twentieth century, but is now primarily associated with Nazism and Hitler' vile attempts at creating a superior Aryan race.Modern eugenics, more often called human genetic engineering, is very far from the Nazi version of it, but remains controversial.G&M: 230‎

‎The average Contribution of each several Ancestor to the total heritage of the Offspring. Received and Read June 3, 1897.‎

‎London, Harrison and Sons, 1897. No wrappers. Extracted from ""Proceedings of the Royal Society"", Vol. 61. Pp. 401-413.‎

‎First printing of Galton's ""Law of ancestral Heredity""Galton's ancestral law states that the two parent contribute between them on average one-half of the total heritage of the offspring, the four grandparents one-quarter, and so on. He interpreted this law both as a representation of the separate contributions of each ancestor to the heritage of the offspring and as a multiple regression formula for predicting the value of a trait from ancestral values.Garrison & Morton: 239.‎

‎Identification by finger-tips.‎

‎London, Nineteenth Century, London, Nineteenth Century1891 ; plaquette in-8, bradel pleine soie ornée de l’époque, pièce de titre en maroquin brun. 9 pp. paginées 303-311 et 1 planche hors-texte Extrait de la revue Nineteenth Century. Francis Galton fut un des pionniers de l’étude des empreintes digitales et le premier à en faire un champ d’étude scientifique aux fins d’identification. Dans un élégant cartonnage anglais de l’époque, toile frotté sur les bords et coins.‎

‎Co-relations and their measurement, chiefly from anthropometric data. - [THE INVENTION OF THE STATISTICAL CONCEPT OF CORRELATION]‎

‎London, Royal Society, 1888. 8vo (210 x 135 mm). In the original printed wrappers. In ""Proceedings of the Royal Society of London"", vol. 45, no. 274. New backstrip (presumably from having been extracted from a binding) The entire issue offered, internally fine and clean. Pp. 135-145. [Entire issue: 99-156].‎

‎First edition Galton’s landmark paper in which he first presented his invention of the statistical concept of correlation.‎

‎Natural Inheritance.‎

‎London and New York, Macmillan and Co., 1889. Orig. full cloth, uncut. Light wear along edges. Part of hinges neathly repaired. Small tears to spine ends. IX,(4),259,(3) pp. Internally clean and fine.‎

‎First edition. - ""By the employment of statistical Methods Galton propounded a ""law of filial regression"". This book represents the first statistical study of biological variation and inheritance.""(Garrison & Morton No. 233). ""The Natural Inheritance was his outcome of his work over the past 15 years on statistical techniques related to genetics. This includes develpment of the concept of correlation coefficients and the formula for the standard error of estimate.""(Parkinson, Breakthroughs).‎

‎Vacation Tourists and Notes of Travel in 1861.‎

‎Cambridge, Macmillan & Co., 1862. Orig. full cloth. Gilt back. Top of spine rubbed, first inner hinge a little weak. VIII,418 pp. and 10 maps. Light browning at end., otherwise fine.‎

‎First edition. With 11 contributions by various authors, e.g.Weir: St. Petersburg and Moscow. - Tozer: The Monks of Mount Athos. - Young: The Amazon, and Rio Madeira. - Sclater: A Naturalist's Impression of Spain. - Seemann: Fiji and Its Inhabitants etc. etc.‎

‎""The Patterns in Thumb and Finger Marks"" on their Arrangement into naturally distinct Classees, the Permanence of the Papillary Ridges that make them, and the Resemblance of their Classes to ordinary Genera."" ( (And same author:) ""Methods of indexing ... - [FINGER-PRINTS AND CRIMINOLOGY]‎

‎Lindon, Harrison and Sons, 1890-91. Bound together in recent marbled boards. With both titlepages to vols 48 and 49 (both 1891) in ""Proceedings of the Royal Society of London"" pp. 455-459 (in vol. 48) and pp. 540-548.‎

‎""The Patterns in Thumb and Finger Marks"" is an early 'abstract' read to the Royal Society. The full paper paper appeared later the same year. ""Methods of indexing Finger Mark"" being the first appearance. These two paper constitute the very first appearance of the anthropometric classification of fingerprint.""Galtons establisment of fingerprinting as an easy and almost infallible means of human identification transformed a difficult subject, and his taxonomy of prints is basically that used today"".(DSB).‎

‎Petit manuel de survie‎

‎Rivages (16 avril 2004)‎

‎In-8 broché, comme neuf.‎