Front matter
Reading edition
PRIMITIVE MAN.
A Family of the Stone Age (Frontispiece).
PRIMITIVE MAN.
By LOUIS FIGUIER.
ILLUSTRATED WITH THIRTY SCENES OF PRIMITIVE LIFE, AND TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY-THREE FIGURES OF OBJECTS BELONGING TO PRE-HISTORIC AGES.
"Arma antiqua manus, ungues, dentesque fuerunt. Et lapides, et item silvarum fragmina rami. Et flamma atque ignes, postquam sunt cognita primum. Posterius ferri vis est ærisque reperta; Et prior æris erat quam ferri cognitus usus." Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, lib. V., v. 1281-5.
LONDON: CHAPMAN AND HALL, 193, PICCADILLY. 1870.