EVOLUTION. - Charles WHITE. An Account of the Regular Gradation in Man and in Different Animals and Vegetables; and From the Former to the Latter. London: for C. Dilly, 1799. 4to (297 x 237mm.) Title, dedication, 3pp. introduction', 4 plates, including 3 folding, appendix. (Minor creasing, browning, marginal damp-stain to 1 plate.) Contemporary boards (some loss to spine, heavily rubbed). Note: scarce. A curious book that compares white European people to other races, their skulls, brains, teeth, penises, differences in mastication and also a section comparing the ease of parturition. However, in the introduction White is keen to ensure that he is not construed 'as to give the smallest countenance to the pernicious practice of enslaving mankind, which he wishes to see abolished throughout the world'.