Verlag: Dover Publications, 2004
ISBN 10: 0486435768 ISBN 13: 9780486435763
Anbieter: Powell's Bookstores Chicago, ABAA, Chicago, IL, USA
Zustand: Used - Very Good. 2004. Paperback. Very Good.
Verlag: J.M. Dent & Sons NULL
Anbieter: Anybook.com, Lincoln, Vereinigtes Königreich
Zustand: Fair. Early 1900s. This book has soft covers. Ex-library, With usual stamps and markings, In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket.
Verlag: J M Dent & Sons, 1111
Anbieter: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, Vereinigtes Königreich
Zustand: Good. 407 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth. Inscription to front endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges.
Verlag: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1111
Anbieter: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, Vereinigtes Königreich
Zustand: Good. No Edition Remarks. 407 pages. No dust jacket. Grey cloth. Leaflet from publisher inserted to rear free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Marking to front board.
Verlag: British Library, Historical Print Editions 01/y /25 M, 2011
ISBN 10: 1241693625 ISBN 13: 9781241693626
Anbieter: AwesomeBooks, Wallingford, Vereinigtes Königreich
Zustand: USED_VERYGOOD. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .
Mehr Angebote von anderen Verkäufern bei ZVAB
Neu ab EUR 68,87
Gebraucht ab EUR 20,26
Mehr entdecken Softcover
Zustand: USED_GOOD. Good condition. Slightly dampstained. (geology history science).
Verlag: TREDITION CLASSICS, 2011
ISBN 10: 384246262X ISBN 13: 9783842462625
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series. The creators of this series are united by passion for literature and driven by the intention of making all public domain books available in printed format again - worldwide. At tredition we believe that a great book never goes out of style. Several mostly non-profit literature projects provide content to tredition. To support their good work, tredition donates a portion of the proceeds from each sold copy. As a reader of a TREDITION CLASSICS book, you support our mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from oblivion.
Verlag: hansebooks, 2019
ISBN 10: 3337805086 ISBN 13: 9783337805081
Anbieter: Buchpark, Trebbin, Deutschland
Zustand: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Seiten: 536 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher.
Verlag: Creative Media Partners, LLC Okt 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 1015612563 ISBN 13: 9781015612563
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.
Verlag: Creative Media Partners, LLC Okt 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 1017372748 ISBN 13: 9781017372748
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.
Verlag: Published by J. M. Dent, London, 1914
Anbieter: Keoghs Books, Skipton, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
Erstausgabe
, xx 1-407 pages, illustrations thoughout, introduced by R.H. Rastall First Edition Thus , light marking to the boards, spine is sunned, inscription in the front free-end paper, shading to the end papers, contents are clean and neat, the binding tight and the book is in good condition , wrapper is shaded and marked with chipping to the extremities and some loss on the spine, it is in fair condition , bound in gray cloth with gilt titles and decoration to the spine, art nouveau endpapers , 16mo, 17.5 x 11cm Hardback ISBN:
Verlag: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1870
Anbieter: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Scarce. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering. General shelf/age wear. Minor rubbing at edges. Pages clean, binding sturdy.
Verlag: British Library, Historical Print Editions, 2011
ISBN 10: 1241323275 ISBN 13: 9781241323271
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
Zustand: New. KlappentextbTitle:/b The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man, with remarks on theories of the origin of species by variation. Illustrated by woodcuts.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The Britis.
Verlag: British Library, Historical Print Editions, 2011
ISBN 10: 1241524173 ISBN 13: 9781241524173
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
Zustand: New. KlappentextbTitle:/b The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man, with remarks on theories of the origin of species by variation. Illustrated by woodcuts.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The Britis.
Verlag: British Library, Historical Print Editions, 2011
ISBN 10: 1241524556 ISBN 13: 9781241524555
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
Zustand: New. KlappentextbTitle:/b The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man, with remarks on theories of the origin of species by variation. Illustrated by woodcuts.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The Britis.
Verlag: Creative Media Partners, LLC Okt 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 1015608124 ISBN 13: 9781015608122
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.
Verlag: Creative Media Partners, LLC Okt 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 1017367728 ISBN 13: 9781017367720
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.
Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2009
ISBN 10: 1108003974 ISBN 13: 9781108003971
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This work of 1863 synthesises the then existing evidence for the earliest humans.
Verlag: London: Murray, 1863
Anbieter: Wissenschaftliches Antiquariat Zorn, Marburg, Deutschland
Erstausgabe
Original-Leinenband. XII, 520, 32 Seiten mit einigen s/w Abbildungen. Exemplar mit etwas stärkeren Gebrauchsspuren. Einband am Buchrücken eingerissen. Vorderes Innengelenk angebrochen, Bindung insgesamt jedoch recht robust. Textsauber und aus einem Nichtraucherhaushalt. // Cloth binding. Cover with some damage. Inner hinge with some damage, yet binding quite solid. Clean book in used condition from a non smoking environment. Sprache: Englisch.
Verlag: 4th. Ed. Rev. Pub. John Murray. 1873, 1873
Anbieter: C. Arden (Bookseller) ABA, Hay-on-Wye, Vereinigtes Königreich
Zustand: UNSPECIFIED. pp.xx, 572 with 20 page John Murray catalogue. Med 8vo. With signature 'L. Sturrock, F.S.A, Dundee 1875' to ffep. Scattered foxing at ends incl. half-title and last page of catalogue, o/w. contents in fine condition. In original, blind tooled green cloth with gilt-embossed illus. to front board and gilt lettering to spine. Very minor amount of rubbing, o/w. boards in near fine condition. A very pleasing copy.
Verlag: J. B. Lippincott & Co.
Zustand: USED_FAIR. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1870. 2nd US edition. 8vo. x,526pp. Illus. Fair book. Spine ends chipped, crown missing. Hinges split; front board nearly detached. Owners' names stamped on pastedowns, and embossed on title page. Underlining and writing inside. (geology, human beings, origin, fossils, Darwinism) Inquire if you need further information.
Verlag: Taylor & Francis, 2003
ISBN 10: 0415289300 ISBN 13: 9780415289306
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
Gebunden. Zustand: NEW.
Verlag: London: John Murray, 1863., 1863
Anbieter: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Kanada
8vo. pp. xvi, 528. wood-engraved frontis. text illus. A very nice copy in original blind & gilt-stamped cloth (some foxing to outer leaves). Second Revised Edition. This is the British geologist's third great work, which went through three editions in one year. "In this he gave a general survey of the arguments for man's early appearance on the earth derived from the discoveries of flint implements in post-Pliocene strata in the Somme valley and elsewhere; he discussed also the deposits of the Glacial epoch, and in the same volume he gave in his adhesion to Darwin's theory of the origin of species." (Encyc. Brit., 11th Edn.) Lyell was a close personal friend of Darwin and was one of the first scientists to support the Origin but he had trouble accepting natural selection as the main motive force in evolution on religious grounds. Freeman 2369.
Verlag: London John Murray, 1863
Anbieter: Shapero Rare Books, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
Erstausgabe
First edition; 8vo; wood-engraved frontispiece and 1 plate, wood engravings within the text, 32-page publisher's ads at rear, occasional small spots and marks but overall contents clean; original green bead grain cloth, titles to spine and fossil design to upper board gilt, decorative panels to boards blocked in blind, brown coated endpapers, 2 bookplates, pencilled ownership signature on the half title, joints cracked, corners bumped, cloth rubbed at the extremities, very good condition; 520pp. First edition of this important contribution to the debate over Darwinian evolution, offering evidence from paleontological discoveries for the theory's relevance to humans. This copy from the library of evolutionary biologist Stephen J. Gould, with his bookplate. Lyell's Principles of Geology, published in 1830, asserted that the earth was shaped by predictable, mechanistic forces acting over long periods of time, and inspired Charles Darwin to think of the evolution of species in similar terms. But even though 'the strong uniformitarian convictions that inspired the Principles of Geology had accustomed Lyell to the concept of the antiquity of species, a combination of personal prejudice and religious belief made it impossible for him, at the time he published the Principles, to extend this concept of antiquity to humankind. It was not until 1859, after Joseph Prestwich's discovery of a flint artefact embedded in ancient river gravel near Abbeville, France, that Lyell began pursuing the question of human antiquity, a question that he recognized as being related to that of the origin of species. Drawing on such facts as Prestwich's discovery, the flints found by Boucher de Perthes, the Swiss lake dwellings, the shell mounds of Denmark and the recent find of a human skull in Neanderthal, Germany, Lyell marshalled a broad array of evidence indicating that man had evolved gradually from lower animals over an immense period of time, and gave a brief abstract of Darwin and Wallace's theory of the indefinite modification of species by natural selection. He thus placed himself on Darwin's side in the controversy over the Origin of Species, although he did not explicitly declare his own acceptance of Darwin's theory until a year after the present work was published. The Antiquity of Man is unusual among works of science in that it passed through multiple revised editions within the space of a year - evidence both of the work's popularity (a month after its publication on 6 February 1863, William Whewell wrote Lyell that 'I am reading your book on the antiquity of man as all the world has done or is doing'), and of Lyell's reactions to reviews and unpublished criticism. In May 1863, a month after the second edition had appeared, Lyell noted that nearly 5000 copies had been sold, and the demand was so great that a third edition was published in Nov 1863' (Hook and Norman, Norman Library of Science and Medicine 1400). Former owner Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) was one of the leading evolutionary biologists of the 20th century. His theory of punctuated equilibria challenged the idea that evolution is a slow and constant accumulation of changes, positing that it often occurs in rapid bursts followed by periods of stasis. He was a prominent defender of teaching of evolution in schools and a leading critic of sociobiology, which he saw as providing a pseudoscientific basis for discrimination. But he was best known as a popular science writer, penning three hundred essays that were originally published in Natural History Magazine. Freeman, British Natural History Books 2369; Hook and Norman, Norman Library of Science and Medicine 1400.
Verlag: John Murray, London, 1863
Anbieter: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
Erstausgabe
Cloth. Zustand: Good Only. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. The first edition, first impression of Charles Lyell's important scientific work which helped to establish the new science of prehistoric archaeology in Great Britain. A very important nineteenth century scientific work which explored three scientific issues that were prominent at the time: the age of the human race, the existence of ice ages and Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection.Written by geologist and scientist Sir Charles Lyell, most well-known for demonstrating how natural causes helped explain the earth's history.This book was Lyell's way of reversing or modifying his own long-held positions on the three issues. It was a bestseller upon its initial publication and had a great impact due to Lyell's presentation and endorsement of the new evidence for human antiquity. The first edition, first impression of this work, with thirty-two pages of publisher's adverts to the rear dated January 1863.Illustrated with an two engraved plates, as well as numerous in-text woodcut illustrations. Collated and complete.The personal copy of noted British archaeologist David W. Phillipson, noted by his bookplate to the front pastedown.This copy was previously held in the Chichester Library Society, and contains a library bookplate to the front pastedown. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, some shelf wear to the boards and significant bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities. Cloth is splitting to the front joint, and lifting to the head and tail of the spine. Containing a library bookplate and the bookplate of David W. Phillipson to the front pastedown.Internally, front hinge is starting, and rear hinge is tender. Remaining binding is lightly strained. A few spots to the first and last few pages, and a few spots throughout, otherwise pages are generally bright and clean. Good Only. book.
Verlag: John Murray, London, 1863
Anbieter: Any Amount of Books, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
Erstausgabe
8vo. pp xii, 520, 32. Original publisher's dark blue textured buckram with gilt illustration at front board, lettered in gilt at spine. Two plates, frontis and further plate opposite p252. Illustrated with woodcuts in text. Publisher's adverts at rear dated January 1863. First edition. Heavy book, may require extra postage charges. Very good condition. Spine edges rubbed at very top and very bottom. Internal hinges cracked. Pages are clean and unmarked throughout, with slight discolouration to endpapers. An attractive copy in a binding that is sound with bright cloth and gilt.
Verlag: London: John Murray,, 1863
Erstausgabe
Hardback. Zustand: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. First edition, 1863. two plates plus text woodcuts. PP: xii, 520+ 32 (Publishers catalogue dated Jan, 1863). Original cloth gilt. Covers little rubbed; bookplates to the pastedown and flyleaf. Aside from the minor bumping to corners, a Fine and notably well preserved copy.;
Verlag: John Murray, London, 1863
Anbieter: Alexandre Antique Prints, Maps & Books, Toronto, ON, Kanada
Zustand: A very good copy. Edition : 1ST, contemporary full cloth with gilt image of a fossile on the upper cover, within a blind stamped boarder. Rebacked skillfully saving the original flat spine with title in gilt., Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man brought together Lyell's views on three key themes from the geology of the Quaternary Period of Earth history: glaciers, evolution, and the age of the human race. First published in 1863, it went through three editions that year, with a fourth and final edition appearing in 1873.Charles Darwin was a close personal friend, and Lyell was one of the first prominent scientists to support The Origin of Species?though he never fully accepted natural selection as the driving engine behind evolution. In fact, Lyell was instrumental in arranging the peaceful co-publication of the theory of natural selection by Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace in 1858, after each discovered it independently., Size : 8vo, 2 woodcut plates including frontis, and numerous woodcut text illustrations. Contemporary pencil notes on the last blank page., P. half-title, advertisment, blank, frontis, title, printer?s imprint, v-xii, 1-520, 1-32.
Verlag: John Murray, London, 1873
Anbieter: Muir Books [Robert Muir Old & Rare Books], PERTH, WA, Australien
Full Calf. Zustand: UNSPECIFIED. 4th Edition. 4th ed., 8vo., pp.572, b/w fronts, illustrated with b/w woodcuts, some foxing to rear pages, marbled e.p.s. bookplates to front paste-down and f.f.e.p., edges marbled, full calf prize binding, front & rear bds detached (in need of restoration) o/w v.g. condition. The book was written by British geologist, Charles Lyell in 1863. The first three editions appeared in February, April, and November 1863, respectively. this is the much-revised fourth edition which appeared in 1873. Antiquity of Man, as it was known to contemporary readers, dealt with three scientific issues of the time: the age of the human race, the existence of ice ages, and Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection.
Verlag: London, John Murray, 1863
Anbieter: Antiquariat Mäander Quell, Waldshut-Tiengen, Deutschland
Gebundene Ausgabe. Zustand: Akzeptabel. 2nd ed., revised. Buchblock gebrochen, geklebt. Einband stark bestoßen. Seiten textsauber. Ehemaliges Exemplar von Albert Hofmann. Enthält Inschrift: "To Albert Hofmann, as a small token of respect from one that owes him much." - Wir versenden aus unserem deutschen Lager heraus in plastikfreien oder wiederverwendeten Polstertaschen. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 454.