[Java Man*. Homo erectus javanicus] Pithecanthrophus Erectus

Eine Menschen aenliche Uebergangsform aus Java. Eug. Dubois. Batavia. Landesdruckerei. 1894. Small folio, half cloth, (1),39,(1),(1) pp., complete with 3 illustrations in the text and 2 full-page plates, i.e. a photo print and a tinted lithograph by P.W.M. Trap after Dubois. Cloth spine damaged, boards stained and rubbed, endpaper and text somewhat browned, else a good copy. On front board annotation in ms.: Collectie Dubois. Geschenk van Prof. Dr. E. Dubois. 16 Mei 1934. Very scarce first edition [Vorwort Tulung-Agung, Januar 1894] of this groundbreaking work on human development and the first unambiguous registration of the missing link between Homo sapiens and an older, more primitive kind of human.

*The first Java Man fossils were discovered on the banks of the Solo River by Dutch anthropologist, Eugène Dubois in 1890 and are now kept in the collections of Naturalis at Leiden.