Thinking about the Earth: A History of Ideas in Geology (Studies in the History and Philosophy of the Earth Sciences) by Oldroyd, David

Harvard University Press, 1996-11-01. hardcover. Very Good. Very Good text, minor to light reading wear to text and dust jacket. No notable marking to text.. Biblio's shipping charge based on a 2 lb weight. Oversize and heavy books will require an additional shipping charge.

Brand: Harvard University Press, 1996-11-01. First Edition. hardcover. Used: Good.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Harvard University Press, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 410 pages. By the Australian geologist. A 'history from Antiquity to the present of ideas about the planet on which we live' -- from the front flap. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. From the Harvard office library of the paleontologist and leading advocate for evolution, Stephen Jay Gould, whose work is cited on several pages, and with Gould's pencil notes on the rear endpapers and minor marginalia on at least one page. With a posthumous tipped in bookplate indicating the provenance. *** Intellectually, Gould understood the true nature of these bookplates, but the book collector in him appreciated them. In his essay 'A Seahorse for All Races' Gould writes about one of his prized possessions, a book from Charles Dickens' library: 'Dickens made no annotations, but a bookplate on the cover, presumably inserted as a come-on for a sale after Dickens' death in 1870, does prove that [he] kept and shelved the… Read More