argyll duke 1823 (5 Ergebnisse)

Fifth Edition. Good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth, with spine bands and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Prelims through copyright page only are disbound but present, with main text block remaining secure. Remains well-preserved overall, with pages clean. Series; Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926: British Law. Physical description; xxix, 462 pages, [4] leaves of plates illustrations. Notes; Reproduction of original from Harvard Law School Library. Subjects; Cosmology. Natural law. Religion and science History 19th century. 3 Kg.

No Binding. Zustand: Good. A head and shoulders portrait, photographer's details printed at foot and to verso of card, identified in pencil to verso, VG. The Duke of Argyll (1823-1900) made contributions to geology, and opposed the Darwinian idea of continuous evolution. He espoused instead a form of 'serial creation', in which he posited multiple acts of creation resulting in the existence of organisms that contained a 'plan' through which the complexities of development could be examined and understood. He was nonetheless one of the ten pallbearers at the funeral of Charles Darwin.

8vo. pp. vii, 267, [1] + 32(ads). with half-title. original cloth (spine spotted, a few pencil notes). First Edition.

Zustand: Good. - A few words boldly penned in black ink on a sheet of cream paper, 3-3/8 inches high by 7 inches wide. The paper has been mounted on a piece of card. Signed "Argyll / March 1869." The paper has been folded 4 times for mailing and there is some creasing to it from the mounting. Good. Argyll is sending a female correspondent his autograph.Scottish peer George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll [1823-1900] was a close associate of Queen Victoria's consort Prince Albert. He served as Lord Privy Seal in Lord Aberdeen's cabinet [1852-1855] and then as Postmaster General in Lord Palmerston's first cabinet [1855-1858]. From 1859 to 1866 he was again Lord Privy Seal, first in the second Palmerston administration and then under the Earl of Russell. In December 1868 he was appointed Secretary of State for India under Gladstone. In this role his refusal to promise support against the Russians to the Emir of Afghanistan helped lead to the Second Afghan War. Argyll was also an author on scientific matters, especially evolution and economics. He was a leader of the scholarly opposition to Darwin, an important economist, and an institutionalist, approaching the study of politics by focusing on formal institutions of government.

- EVOLUTION - *An original coloured lithograph from 'Vanity Fair' by APE [Carlo Pellegrini]. George Douglas Campbell, 8th. Duke of Argyll, FRS in 1851, author of two anti-Darwin works on evolution 'The Reign of Law' and 'The Unity of Nature', the former described by Darwin as 'Very well written, very interesting, honest & clever, and very arrogant.' He was a pall-bearer at Darwin's funeral.