[Piltdown Man]. BUTTEL-REEPEN, Professor H. v.

Man and His Forerunners. Incorporating Accounts of Recent Discoveries in Suffolk and Sussex

London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1913 [first, revised, English language edition]/ 1911.

Octavo, x, 96 pages with 3 tables and 71 illustrations.

Cloth lightly flecked; extremities tanned; flyleaves discoloured; a few pencilled emphases; a very good copy.

Provenance: Sir Edward Charles Stirling (1848-1919), eminent SA surgeon, scientist and politician, with his nameplate mounted on the front pastedown. Not least, the frontispiece and pages 66-69, an early account of Charles Dawson's Piltdown Man in 1912 (which was not discovered to be fraudulent until 1949) ("Encyclopedia Britannica").

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