Romanes E G (3 results)

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,200grams, ISBN.

Leather. Condition: Very Good. First edition. A lovely pocket sized guide to leading a Christian life. With an ink inscription dated July 1915 to front pastedown. First edition, first impression. With unpaginated publisher's catalogue to rear for 'Churchman's Penny Library'. In a full reverse calf binding. Externally, generally smart but with slight wear to extremities and the odd mark to boards. Internally, firmly bound. Generally bright and clean throughout but with slight off-setting from the binding to endpapers. Very Good. None (illustrator). book.…

suivi d'un essai posthume sur l'instinct par Charles Darwin. Traduction française par le docteur Henry C. de Varigny. Paris, Reinwald, 1884, in-8, toile ornée de fers spéciaux, non rogné, [Rel. de l'éditeur] qques pâles mouill. 1 tableau relié en frontispice, 2 ff.n.ch., pp. [V] - XVIII, 412 pp. Première édition de la traduction française. Défenseur du transformisme de Darwin, Romanes interpréta la notion d'adaptation dans un sens nettement finaliste. "Romanes was gathering observations and corresponding with Darwin on the subject of animal intelligence. To both Darwin and Romanes it appeared that the theory of evolution required a fundamental continuity in the spectrum of mental life, extending from the lowest organisms up ton and including man." Dict. of Scientific Biography, XII pp. 516-520. …