Crania Norvegica I

Description:

Vol. I (of 2). Kristian Emil Schreiner (1874-1957) was a Norwegian anatomist and the leading authority on physiognomy. He was Professor and Head of the Department of Anatomy at the University of Oslo, 1908-1945. In this volume, he studied more than 2,000 medieval skulls housed at the University. The second volume (not present here) was published after the war in 1946, and included analysis of Norwegian prehistoric bones.

Schreiner was Edvard Munch’s (1863-1944) personal physician and he produced a number of portraits of Schreiner.

Instituttet for Sammenlignende Kulturforskning, Serie B: Skrifter XXXVI.

Condition

4to, orig. half leather, rubbed/scuffed, marbled boards, edges uncut. Printed sections from front and rear wrappers loosely inserted. From an institutional library with withdrawn stamps to verso of title page and final plate only. Good. A pencil note to rear endpaper records that this copy was presented by Dr Oakley [to the British Museum (Natural History]. Kenneth Page Oakley (1911-1981) was an English physical anthropologist, palaeontologist and geologist. Known for his relative dating of fossils using fluorine content, which was instrumental in the exposure of the Piltdown Man hoax in the 1950s.