Erasme

1803 · 290244 — Boston: Thames and Andrews 1803. Second. hardcover. good. PARTS 1 & 3 ONLY bound together. xxix 3 466 96 pages. Includes an index to these volumes one page partially torn. 8vo old tan cloth very worn but sound with inner hinges re-enforced. Text is unmarked but heavily browned and with occasional staining. Boston: Thomas and Andrews 1803. Second American from the third London edition. Scarce. A good copy but lacking the 2nd part.<br/><br/> Austin 617 and 618. GM 105 Osler 2413 both cite original London edition 1794-1796. Orr 148 2nd and 3rd American editions. Reynolds 1187 3rd American edition. Cole 2087. Wood p. 311. This work is "the celebrated forerunner of Darwinism" and the one which alone has made the author's name memorable apart from his familial connection with Charles Darwin. The work sustains a peculiar but original thesis in which the author attempts to formulate the laws that govern the origin and progress of animal life. There is much in it that seems to foreshadow Darwinism.<br/><br/> Thames and Andrews unknown books