Published in burgundy cloth with gilt embossed figure on upper boards, tooled in blind, gilt lettering to spine, newly instead spine on volume 1, boards rubbed and worn in places, some plates and text foxed, or damp stained, etc. Corners have been strengthened. 4th ed. / ed. and enlarged by Edwin Norris. 2 v. (viii 720 p.) : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm. Vol 1 - 11 Colour plates (5 black and white). Vol 2 - 45 Colour plates. Prichard's extensive researches were 'directed to the physical diversities which characterise different races of men'… [from which] he concluded that the human race was originally dark-skinned… and that 'all races are of one species and of one family'" (PMM 183-84). The Natural History of Man was first published in parts 1841-42 and in book form in 1843. It was the condensed version of his five-volume Researches Into the Physical History of Mankind (1836-47) and originally contained only 36 plates. This companion volume of 53 hand-coloured aquatint plates and three uncoloured plates (of a total of 62) for the 1855 fourth edition are drawn after well-known artists chief among them George Catlin to whose work eight of the images can be traced (and six others bear striking resemblance). **Without plates 3 31 32 34 60 61 and 62.** Two different plates share the same number 41 (one of which could be plate 61). Several plates bound out of sequence. *Ron Norman of Hartlepool carried out rebinding and restoration work on this book. (Ronnorm@aol.com)* Coloured plates in order: Volume 1. 1. Frontis. A Man of the Tuda Race. 2. Native of the Papua Islands. 3. A Melik of the Shegya Arabs. 4. Ram Ruttun. A Brahman. 5. Woman of the Aleutian Islands. 6. Kamtschadale. 7. Koorai. A Fisherman's Family. 8. Walda Kyros, an Abyssinian Native of Shoa / Gabra Eugziabher, Native of Adowa in Tigre. 9. A Galla Boy nine years of age. 10. Abbas Gregorius / Native of Houssa. 11. A Native of Mandara / A Native of Borneo. Volume 2. 12. Frontis. A Woman of the Tuda Race. 13. Female of the Bushman Race. 14. Woman & Child of the Bushman Race. 15. Jan Tzatzoe. Kafir of the Amakosah Tribe. 16. Kafir of the Amakosa. 17. Kafir of the Bechmana. 18. Native of Mozambique. 19. Native of Benguela / Native of Angola. 20. A Malay. 21. Woman of the Marian Islands. 22. Natives of the Sandwich Islands. 23. Woman of the Samoan Islands. 24. Man of the Samoan Islands. 25. Natives of Tikopia. 26. Native of Madagascar. 27. Girl of the Isle of Luzon. 28. Native of Dourga Strait, New Guinea. 29. Outanata, New Guinea. 30. Ahetas. (or Negrites of Luzon.) 31. Native of Balad in new Caledonia / Native of Anaiteum. 32. Savanduli, an Erumango Boy / Man of Erumango. 33. A Native of Anaiteum. 34. Native of Solomon Island. 35. Tomboua Nakoro, a Fiji. 36. Australians of King Georges Sound. 37. Kallihirua (an Esquimaux.) 38. Ne-bet-neuh-qua / Wos-see-ab-neuh-qua / Nib-nab-i-quah. 39. The War Dance, by the Ojibbeway Indians; Pat-au-a-quot-a-wee-be (The Flying Cloud) / Sa-mah (Tobacco) / Gish-e-gosh-e-ghee (The Moonlight Night) / We-nish-ka-wee-ha (The Flying Gull). 40. Ah-quee-we-zaints. The Boy. 41. Not-een-a-alom. The Strong Wind. 42. Muck-a-tah-mish-a-kah-kauk. The Black Hawk. A Souk Chief. 43. Nah-pope. (The Soup) A Souk Warrior. 44. Tuck-ee, a Cherokee War Chief. 45. Mah-to-toh-pa (The four bears) 2nd Chief of the Mandans. 46. Mi-neek-ee-sunk-te-ka. The Mink. A Mandan Girl. 47. Sha-ko-ka. The Mint. A Mandan Girl. 48. Meach-o-shin-gaw. The Little White Bear. A Konza Warrior. 49. Wah-ro-nee-sah. The Surrounder. An Ottoe Chief. 50. Natives of California. 51. Hunters of Bay San Francisco. 52. Hee-doh-gee-ats, a Chenook Boy. 53. H'co-a-h'co-a-h'cotes-min. A Flat head Warrior. 54. Araucanan, Native of Chile. 55. The last of the Charruas. 56. Iuri / Botocudos.