Maupertuis (Pierre-Louis Moreau de) Dissertation Physique a l'Occasion du Negre Blanc, first edition, half-title, occasional foxing, modern bookplate of A.L.McLaughlin to rear pastedown, contemporary mottled calf, gilt, a little rubbed, rebacked preserving old gilt spine, corners repaired, 8vo, Leiden, n.p., 1744.

⁂ Early work on human genetics and heredity prompted by the sight of an albino negro in Paris, and anticipating many of the later ideas of Darwin and Mendel.