Francis Galton, 3 titles, all first editions, all published ...

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Francis Galton, 3 titles, all first editions, all published London, Macmillan, comprising: 'Finger Prints', 1892, 16 plates (of which 1 double page, some colour) complete, ex library, original cloth gilt. First edition of Galton's work designed to assist with classifying and indexing large numbers of fingerprints. "The use of fingerprints for the identification of criminals had been advocated in 'Nature' in 1880 by both Henry Faulds and Sir William Herschel, but was put on a scientific basis only in Galton's book on Finger Prints, published in 1892" (Bulmer, p. 35); 'Hereditary Genius: An Inquiry Into Its Laws and Consequences', 1869, ex library, some leaves at beginning with ink staining/water staining at head, original cloth gilt, rebacked; 'Natural Inheritance', 1889, ex library, orig. cloth gilt (3)