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Zoological Philosophy: An Exposition with Regard to the Natural History of Animals
by Lamarck, J. B. ; Elliot, Hugh (translator)
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket; Heel bumped, boards rubbed, newspaper clipping about bacterial resistance to antibiotics laid in
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Selkirk, New York, United States
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About This Item
London: Macmillan and Company. Very Good with no dust jacket; Heel bumped, boards rubbed, newspaper . clipping about bacterial resistance to antibiotics laid in.. 1914. 1st English Language Edition. Hardcover. Translated and with an introduction by Hugh Elliot. Green ruled cloth. Titles stamped in gilt on spine. xci, 410 pp. + [2] pp. publisher’s ads. “Presentation copy” embossed on title page. “Sir F. Keeble, Hammels, Boars Hill, Oxford”, which indicates previous owner was Sir Frederick Keeble, the noted British botanist and professor. One of the most influential books in the history of evolutionary theory, this book was first published by Jean Baptiste Lamarck in Paris in 1809. It contravened Christian dogma about how plants and animals were divinely created in final fixed states and not transformed over time according to environmental factors. Lamarck also theorized that more complex forms of life derived from simpler ones. The 1809 first edition of this work is cited in Garrison-Morton 216 and was included in the Printing and the Mind of Man exhibition in 1963. Uncommon. No other copies listed for sale in the trade at this time. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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- Bookseller
- Old Saratoga Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 37802
- Title
- Zoological Philosophy: An Exposition with Regard to the Natural History of Animals
- Author
- Lamarck, J. B. ; Elliot, Hugh (translator)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New Very Good with no dust jacket; Heel bumped, boards rubbed, newspaper clipping about bacterial resistance to antibiotics laid in
- Edition
- 1st English Language Edition
- Publisher
- Macmillan and Company
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1914
- Keywords
- Natural Selection, Lamarck, Evolutionary Theory, Evolution, History Of Science
- Bookseller catalogs
- Natural History; Science and Technology;
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Old Saratoga Books
Biblio member since 2005
Selkirk, New York
About Old Saratoga Books
Old Saratoga Books owners Dan and Rachel Jagareski have been selling books since 1996. After running an open shop for twenty years in the historic village of Schuylerville we now sell books online and at book fairs. We are members of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA). Our specialties include books about history, science, cooking, children's books, and the arts. Rachel is a graduate of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar and has attended Rare Book School in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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