Genius erasmus darwin (11 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. 1st. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition. Wear consistent with age and use. Clean unmarked copy. Light scuffing and smudging to boards and jacket. This could have light cosmetic flaws, but remains in good condition. Dust jacket condition is Good. This copy is the First Edition of the published work. Secure packaging for safe delivery.…

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 361 pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, map, portraits ; 23 cm. Notes; Illus. incl. plates, diagr., facsimiles and genealog. Includes bibliographical references (pages 342-343) and index. Subjects; Darwin, Erasmus 1731-1802. Darwin, Erasmus ; Biography. Darwin, Erasmus Studies. 18th Century. 19th Century. Naturalists England ; Biography. Physicians England ; Biography. Scientists England Biography. Medicine England Biography. Medicine. Naturalists. Physicians. 1 Kg. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo, 361 pp, 12 black and white plates. An excellent copy in a protected dust wrapper.

Zustand: very good. From the Library of John Russell Taylor.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Original Cloth. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First Edition. Signed by Ashley Montagu.

Red Cloth. Zustand: Fine-. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st ed. 361 pp., 10 pp. plates ex-pagination; prev. owner's small gilt label top front pastedown (mine, alas), slight dustiness and odd whiter marking to top edge which amount to very little; unclipped jacket has no obvious faults of any significance (will add protective sleeve when ordered). Size: 14 Cms x 22 Cms.…

Hard covers, dust jacket. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st edition. Scarcely used. Weight: 1.0 Language: English.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. First Edition. 361 pages. Index. References. "Grandfather of Charles, he developed the concept of biological evolution to a sophisticated level more than fifty years before publication of The Origin of Species. His far-sighted optimism and inventive flair animated that famous group of technological revolutionaries of the 1760s and 1770s which included Wedgewood, Watt, Boulton and Keir and in time became the driving force behind the Industrial Revolution." - from dust jacket. Front free endpaper removed. Usual library markings. Only moderate wear. Back hinge starting. A worthy reference copy.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; DARWIN ERASMUS 1731 1802 Medical Doctor Lunar Circle Radburn Derby Poet Zoonomia Darwinian Legacy English Scientists Grandfather of Charles, he developed the concept of biological evolution to a sophisticated level more than fifty years before publicati.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. The Genius of Erasmus Darwin provides insight into the full extent of Erasmus Darwin's exceptional intellect. He is shown to be a major creative thinker and innovator, one of the minds behind the late eighteenth-century industrial revolution, and one of the first, if not the first, to perceive the living world (including humans) as part of a unified evolutionary scenario. The contributions here provide contextual understandings of Erasmus Darwin's thought, as well as studies of particular works and accounts of the later reception of his writings. In this way it is possible to see why the young Samuel Taylor Coleridge was moved to describe Darwin as 'the first literary character in Europe, an.…