Pre Historic Times Illustrated Ancient Remains by Lubbock John, First Edition (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First American Edition published after the Second English Edition in 1869. Full original tan stamped cloth with a decorative gilt spear on the spine. Short tears at the head of the spine along the spine edges, wear at the foot of the spine with one-fourth of an inch loss, internals nice, Good. Signature in pencil of Stephen Loines dated "Oct 10 1872." All five plates called for (including the two colored plates) are present. Lubbock was an important force in nineteenth-century archaeology.

8°. XXIII, 512, 8 S. mit 3 (1 farb.) lithogr. Tafeln, 1 Plan und 156 Holzschnitt-Illustrationen. Orig.-Leinenband mit goldgepr. Rückentitel und schwarzgepr. Deckel-Ornamentik. Seltene erste Ausgabe. - "Mr. (now Sir John) Luebock's Pre-Historic Times is a collection of facts and inferences bearing on primitive archseology, and the probable antiquity and early condition of mankind on the earth. Papers on the " Danish Shell-Mounds, the " Swiss Lake-Dwellings," etc, which have appeared in the Natural History Review, and Leclures on Archceology, delivered at the Royal Institution, are incorporated in it with a quantity of new matter; and the whole forms a body of clear information, and discreet and moderate argument, on a number of obscure but highly interesting problems of our most ancient history. Before giving some account of the contents of the work, we must, however, take notice of a passage which, of all things in it, we like the least. This is a note which, placed as it is conspicuously at the end of the preface, is sure to catch the reader's eye." (The Anthropological Review, Vol. 3, 1865, No. 11, p. 338). - Der bedeunde britische Anthropologe, Paläontologe, Botaniker und Entomologe J. Lubbock (1834-1913), seit Kindheitstagen ein enger Freund von Charles Darwin, prägte die Begriffe Paläolithikum und Neolithikum. "Er definierte das Paläolithikum als die Epoche des geschlagenen Steins, das Neolithikum durch die Verwendung geschliffenen Steins (Steinbeile). Mit seiner Unterscheidung der Funde aus den glazialen Moränen (drift) und den dänischen Muschelhaufen nahm er auch die Trennung zwischen Paläolithikum und Mesolithikum vorweg, die auf Hodder M. Westropp (1866) zurückgeht. Zusammen mit dem Sammler John Evans gelang ihm der Erwerb von Fundstücken aus Hallstatt" (Wikipedia). - Einband etwas berieben und leicht angestaubt, Stempel auf dem Vorsatz und Titelblatt, Frontispiz und Titelblatt etwas braunfleckig, sehr gutes Exemplar im Original-Verlagseinband. Rare first edition. - "Mr. (now Sir John) Luebock's Pre-Historic Times is a collection of facts and inferences bearing on primitive archaeology, and the probable antiquity and early condition of mankind on earth. Papers on the 'Danish Shell-Mounds,' the 'Swiss Lake-Dwellings,' etc., which have appeared in the Natural History Review, and Lectures on Archaeology, delivered at the Royal Institution, are incorporated in it with a quantity of new matter; and the whole forms a body of clear information, and discreet and moderate argument, on a number of obscure but highly interesting problems of our most ancient history. Before giving some account of the contents of the work, we must, however, take notice of a passage which, of all things in it, we like the least. This is a note which, placed as it is conspicuously at the end of the preface, is sure to catch the reader's eye." (The Anthropological Review, Vol. 3, 1865, No. 11, p. 338). - The renowned British anthropologist, palaeontologist, botanist and entomologist J. Lubbock (1834-1913), a close friend of Charles Darwin since childhood, coined the terms Palaeolithic and Neolithic. He defined the Palaeolithic as the era of chipped stone, and the Neolithic as the era of polished stone (stone axes). With his distinction between finds from glacial moraines (drift) and Danish shell mounds, he also anticipated the separation between the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic, which goes back to Hodder M. Westropp (1866). Together with the collector John Evans, he succeeded in acquiring finds from Hallstatt" (Wikipedia). - Binding slightly rubbed and slightly dusty, stamp on the flyleaf and title page, frontispiece and title page slightly brown-stained, very good copy in original publisher's binding. Sprache: englisch.

FIRST EDITION. Col. front., plates, illus. Orig. red fine-ribbed cloth, bordered in black, spine lettered in gilt; sl. worn & a little marked. A good-plus copy.

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Signed by John Lubbock with inscription "From the Author" on half title page, but not his name. xxiii, [1], 512, [8, ads] pp. Publisher's red ribbed cloth decorated in black, spine lettered in gilt, brown coated endpapers. Very Good with rubbed edges, slightly stained and darkened cloth, small ding to spine, corners bumped, hinges starting, a little foxing to prelims. A landmark archaeology work of the 19th century, in which the author (a friend and neighbor of Charles Darwin who helped edit Origin of Species) introduced the terms and concepts of the Neolithic and Paleolithic Ages, as distinguished from the Stone Age. It became the standard archaeological textbook for decades. Uncommon inscribed and in the original cloth.