The Master-Builder's Plan or the Principles of Organic Architecture as indicated in the Typical Forms of Animals.

Ogilvie, George, M.D.

Published by London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1858

About this Item

Original publisher s maroon cloth, spine with gilt titles, blind decorated covers, text illustrated throughout with black and white drawings, 3 black and white plates, including one folding, to rear. 8vo., pp.xvi, 192. Brown endpapers with publisher s adverts on pastedowns. Very good copy of a rare work. In the Preface, George Ogilvie M.D., Lecturer on the Institutes of Medicine, in Marshal College and University of Aberdeen, states that his object was to bring forward, in a popular form the views now generally held by philosophical naturalists in regard to a common plan of construction, traceable in each of the primary divisions of the animal kingdom.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Master-Builder's Plan or the Principles of Organic Architecture as indicated in the Typical Forms of Animals.
• Publisher: London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts
• Publication Date: 1858
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science and Technology
  • Natural History
  • Nineteenth century