Edward Burnett TYLOR (1832-1917), English... - Lot 28 - Conan Belleville Hôtel d'Ainay

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Edward Burnett TYLOR (1832-1917), English... - Lot 28 - Conan Belleville Hôtel d'Ainay
Edward Burnett TYLOR (1832-1917), English anthropologist, first holder of the chair of anthropology of the university of Oxford, theorist of the social anthropology with the publication of Primitive Culture. L.A.S. to Professor Alfred Maury (1817-1892). 4 pp. in-8. Linden Wellington [Somersetshire], Oct. 2, 1876. On the publication of the French translation of Primitive culture [La Civilisation Primitive], with a preface by Alfred Maury. "The first volume of "La Civilisation Primitive" has reached me from west Reinwald, and a glance over its pages has been enough to show how much it owns to your supervision. I trust that you understand how fully I appreciate your personal kindness. No one could have ventured to ask so eminent a writer to undertake this troublesome tasks, pendered all the more difficult by the translatress never having reconciled herself to this appeal to the highest authority. It is, I presume, by your own wish that no mention of your name appears in the preface. But if a few lines of announcement appear in the English literary journals, may I ask if it should be stored that the sheets have passed through your hands. He asks her for a photographic portrait of him "to place among the enthnologists whom I have the honor of counting as friends".
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