ZUCKERMAN, Solly. The Social Life of Monkeys and Apes. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd. 1932.
8vo. Original green cloth and dustwrapper; pp. xii, 357, [7, publisher's catalogue], 24 b&w photographic plates; wrapper a little chipped to extremities, internally extremely clean, very good.
First edition. Solly Zuckerman's fascinating treatise on the social organisation of monkeys and apes was his most notable pre-war work. It is pioneering in its close observation of primate life, and also in its challenge to the supposition that ape society in some way echoes early human society.
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