Evolution Light Modern Knowledge Collective, First Edition (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good-VG. 1st Edition. xv+517+(12)(Index-pages lettered A-L)+(2)(pub.list), 4 plates (2 unf.), occ.text figs; eminent historian of science R.M.Young's dated sig.top fr.free endpaper + cancelled earlier sig., Young's pencilled lines and marginalia in McDougall's chapter on Mental Evolution and twice in A.E.Taylor's on Philosophy otherwise internally clean, tight & unmarked, brown flecks to text-block edges. Dark blue cloth covers clean and minimally worn bar v.sl.sp.end & corner rubbing. Contributors include Jeans, Lloyd Morgan, McDougall, Elliot Smith and Soddy. A useful source on state of play of the topic in mid-1920s.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Foxing to prelims. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xv, 528 p. : illus., plates (2 fold.) map. diagrs. ; 22 cm. Notes; Bibliography at end of each chapter. Contributions by F.O. Bowes, J.H. Jeans, H. Jeffreys, E.W. Macbride, W. McDougall, C.L. Morgan, M.S. Pembrey, A. Robb, G.E. Smith, F. Soddy, A.E. Taylor, W.W. Watts, J.M. Wilson. Contents; I. Cosmogony, by James H. Jeans.--II. The evolution of the earth as a planet, by Harold Jeffreys.--III. Geology, by William W. Watts.--IV. Biology, by Conway Lloyd Morgan.--V. Botany, by Frederick O. Bower.--VI. Zoology, by Ernest W. MacBride.--VII. Physiology, by Marcus S. Pembrey.--VIII. Anthropology, by G. Elliot Smith.--IX. Mental evolution, by William M'Dougall.--X. Physics and chemistry, by Frederick Soddy.--XI. Time and space, by Alfred A. Robb.--XII. Philosophy, by A.E. Taylor.--XIII. The religious effect of the idea of evolution, by the Rev. James Maurice Wilson. Subjects; Evolution (Biology). Evolution (Biology) ; Bibliography. Biological Evolution. Evolution Religious aspects Christianity. Religion and science. Geology. Philosophy. Physics. Chemistry. Anthropology. Physiology. Mental Evolution. Zoology. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Foxing to prelims. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xv, 528 p. : illus., plates (2 fold.) map. diagrs. ; 22 cm. Notes; Bibliography at end of each chapter. Contributions by F.O. Bowes, J.H. Jeans, H. Jeffreys, E.W. Macbride, W. McDougall, C.L. Morgan, M.S. Pembrey, A. Robb, G.E. Smith, F. Soddy, A.E. Taylor, W.W. Watts, J.M. Wilson. Contents; I. Cosmogony, by James H. Jeans.--II. The evolution of the earth as a planet, by Harold Jeffreys.--III. Geology, by William W. Watts.--IV. Biology, by Conway Lloyd Morgan.--V. Botany, by Frederick O. Bower.--VI. Zoology, by Ernest W. MacBride.--VII. Physiology, by Marcus S. Pembrey.--VIII. Anthropology, by G. Elliot Smith.--IX. Mental evolution, by William M'Dougall.--X. Physics and chemistry, by Frederick Soddy.--XI. Time and space, by Alfred A. Robb.--XII. Philosophy, by A.E. Taylor.--XIII. The religious effect of the idea of evolution, by the Rev. James Maurice Wilson. Subjects; Evolution (Biology). Evolution (Biology) ; Bibliography. Biological Evolution. Evolution Religious aspects Christianity. Religion and science. Geology. Philosophy. Physics. Chemistry. Anthropology. Physiology. Mental Evolution. Zoology. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. pp xv 528 with folding views of Nebulae and with drawings in the text and a map of the world. Navy cloth, gilt with a little light shelf wear to head and foot of spine and corners. Prize inscription on front endpaper to A. E. Gunther, Magdalen College Oxford.