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19255834New York. George H. Doran Company. 1925. Bound in 1/2 vellum and paper covered boards. 8vo. Large Paper Edition Limited to 250 numbered copies of which this is #95. Signed by Aldous Huxley. Spine label half chipped off with glue residue and various staining to vellum spine else Near Fine. A tight copy. George H. Doran Company. hardcover books
192520613New York: George H. Doran Company. Very Good. 1925. Hardcover. Slight toning loose otherwise good . George H. Doran Company hardcover books
1925WRCLIT32933London: Chatto & Windus 1925. Cloth paper label. First edition trade issue. Spine and edges lightly faded else a very good copy lacking the dust jacket. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
1925WRCLIT42101London: Chatto & Windus 1925. Cloth paper label. First edition trade issue. Spine and edges lightly faded else a very good copy in modestly edgeworn and dust soiled jacket. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper; pale green cloth, backstrip with printed paper label, green top, uncut, backstrip lightly sunned, two corners mildly bruised else a very good, clean copy. With spare paper label tipped-in at end. SCARCE. Muir and Van Thal, p.25
18752618261875. 2 pp. old folds small tape repair. 2 pp. Huxley and Fayrer met in 1844 at the University of London. "Fayrer became a firm friend. The two often worked through the night." Desmond. Indeed it was Fayrer who suggested Huxley take to the sea and thus he joined the Rattlesnake under the command of Owen Stanley 1846-50.<br /> <br /> Having returned from the Rattlesnake voyage 1846-50 he became the professor of natural history at the Royal School of Mines and later president of the Royal Society. Though is best known as "Darwin's bulldog" for his strident advocacy of his theory of evolution. He also coined the term "agnostic".<br /> <br /> Fayrer was famous for the treatment of snakebite and at the time of writing was gearing up for membership of the Royal Society. He was proposed for election in March and finally admitted in April 1877. Desmond A; Huxley From Devil's Disciple to Evolution's High Priest. Reading 1997 p.36 unknown
18752618261875. 2 pp. old folds small tape repair. 2 pp. Huxley and Fayrer met in 1844 at the University of London. "Fayrer became a firm friend. The two often worked through the night." Desmond. Indeed it was Fayrer who suggested Huxley take to the sea and thus he joined the Rattlesnake under the command of Owen Stanley 1846-50.<br/><br/>Having returned from the Rattlesnake voyage 1846-50 he became the professor of natural history at the Royal School of Mines and later president of the Royal Society. Though is best known as "Darwin's bulldog" for his strident advocacy of his theory of evolution. He also coined the term "agnostic".<br/><br/>Fayrer was famous for the treatment of snakebite and at the time of writing was gearing up for membership of the Royal Society. He was proposed for election in March and finally admitted in April 1877. Desmond A; Huxley From Devil's Disciple to Evolution's High Priest. Reading 1997 p.36 unknown books
187757874BBLondon, Macmillan and Co., 1877. 8°. 4 n.n. Bl., 164 S., 24 S. Katalog Originalleinwand.
1970001506Austin and New York: Jenkins Publishing Company 1970. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Don E. Sanders. Black lettering on grey covers in a white pictorial dust jacket. 8vo 21 double-leaf pages. The dust Jacket has a small spot on the upper right corner of the front panel & the price is clipped. <br/> <br/> Jenkins Publishing Company hardcover
1877024118London: Macmillan. First Edition. Original red cloth. On a fairly large slip of paper tipped in on the verso of the front free endpaper are two lines of handwriting. The first is the name "Edward B. Tyler" ostensibly the notable anthropologist who wrote "Primitive Culture" and "Anthropology." The second is "From the author." The second line of handwriting does look like Huxley's. The second doesn't seem to look like either Huxley's or Tylor's. The book contains three lectures on evolution an address on the occasion of the opening of Johns Hopkins University and a lecture on the study of biology. Minor corner bumps slight wear at the head and foot of the spine Very Good Minus. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1877. Macmillan hardcover
1877622488New York: D. Appleton and Company 1877. Hardcover. Near Fine. First American edition. 164pp. Black and white illustrations. Some spotting on the top stain and slight wear on the board edges else near fine with previous owner pencil name on the half title page. D. Appleton and Company hardcover
3752309199.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
3752363533.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
149797013X.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
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1528246500.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
ria9783752363531_inpHardcover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Reproduction of the original: American Addresses by Thomas Henry Huxley hardcover
B9783752363531Hardback. New. hardcover
187738604New York: Appleton 1877. Huxley Thomas 1825-95. American addresses with a lecture on the study of biology. 12mo. 6 164pp. Text wood-engravings some after Othniel C. Marsh 1831-99. New York: Appleton 1877. 196 x 124 mm. Original green cloth slightly worn. Fine copy. First American Edition published simultaneously with the London edition. "The first British book to make the fossil case for evolution" Desmond Huxley p. 484. Huxley toured America in 1876 capping his visit with a series of lectures on evolution delivered in New York City. These were published the following year in both England and America with illustrations taken from fossil drawings by American paleontologist O. C. Marsh whose "classifications and descriptions of extinct vertebrates were major contributions to knowledge of evolution" DSB. 38604. Appleton unknown books
188540015London: Macmillan 1885. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. Huxley Thomas Henry 1825-95. Howes George Bond 1853-1905. An atlas of practical elementary biology . . . with a preface by Professor Huxley P.R.S. 4to. vii 4 116pp. 24 lithographed plates. London: Macmillan 1885. 295 x 232 mm. Original green cloth stamped in gilt on front cover and spine a little worn and shaken inner hinges weak minor spotting on front cover. Light toning but very good. Ownership signature on front free endpaper. Macmillan unknown books
1978x-0313269521Praeger Pub Text 1978. Hardcover. New. reprint edition. 280 pages. 8.98x5.98x1.57 inches. Praeger Pub Text hardcover
193785187London: Chatto & Windus 1937. Softcover. Octavo 18.5cm; tan paper wrappers; 1251pp. Tanned with light shelf- and finger-soil to wrappers and light off-setting to pastedowns and endpapers; Very Good. Collection of 55 articles on war and pacifism including "Communism and Fascism" "Ethics and War" "Patriotism" and "War Resisters' International". 85187. Chatto & Windus unknown
193758195New York and London: Harper & Brothers 1937. First American edition 16mo pp. 2 104 2; original green paper wrappers; wrappers soiled underlining and marginal notes in pencil throughout otherwise very good and sound. <br/><br/> Harper & Brothers unknown books