BOLLAERT, William
Title: Observations on the Past and Present Populations of the New World.
Publisher: London: Anthropological Society, 1864
Notes & Condition:
Bollaert's lucid essay examines ethnological features of the ancient civilizations
of Spanish America and is replete with statistic, including also contemporary data
on slavery in Cuba and throughout the 'New World'. With remarks on the nations of
Chibcha or Muisca, the Quitus, Lucayans, Caribs, the Guayana tribes, and many others,
he frequently refers to the works of Alexander von Humboldt.
48 pages. These are original text pages printed in 1864, in excellent condition.
Attractively bound booklet style in modern blue paper covers with label.
Excerpt for the Text:
"...I lean rather to the polygenistic than to the momogenistic view of human creation;
and, I will consider for the present the red or copper-coloured men of the New World
to be of one species of the genus Homo, a species in the scale of intelligence, peculiar
to itself. I have come to this conclusion by a study of their various personal characteristics, their languages - without alphabets - forms of government, works of
art of more than one period; but more particularly, as it would seem, of a different physiological condition when compared with other species of mankind." End Excerpt.
William Bollaert (1807-1876) was an English chemist, geographer, ethnologist and for
a time, assayist for Peruvian silver mines. He travelled extensively in South America, Central America, and Texas, publishing geographical and ethnological observations made
during his explorations.
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