1561 RARE ETHNOGRAPHIC WORK Mores leges et ritus by Johann Boemus ANTIQUE 16th C

img{max-width:100%} Mores, leges, et ritus omnium gentium. Cum indice locupletissimo. Lyon, Jean de Tournes & Guillaume Gazeau; 1561. by Boemus, Joannes, approximately 1485-1535;Size 3 1/4 by 5 1/4" 374 pp., 19 lvs, 93 pp., 3 blank lvs. With woodcut title border. Blind stamped leather bindingLacks fastening straps , binding is worn.Ground breaking and influential seminal work in anthropology.Written by the "Father of Scientific Ethnography" (NDB). - Reprint of the 1556 edition with the addition of Fides, religio, mores', first published in Leuven in 1540 que Aethiopvm sub Imperio Preciosi Ioannis of Damiao de Gois and his Deploratio Lappianae gentis.Title page (with old property of a Christoph Faber) reinforced in the left margin. =============================================== Johann Boemus (Bohm, Bohemus) (c. 1485–1535) was a German humanist, canon of Ulm Minster, traveller, and Hebraist. He was compiler and author of the first ethnographic compendium of the