With the date on the title page and in the original green gilt cloth with gilt dinosaur design on cover and tissue interleavings to the engravings. A profusely illustrated survey of the sciences in reference to the origin of life, based on Darwinian evolution, by a noted professor of geology, zoology and biology at the University of Michigan. This copy belonged to John Hornby (the British arctic explorer?) and bears his name stamp at the top edge of the title page and no other inscriptions. A clean, tight copy in bright cover gilt,

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Bibliographic Details

Title

Sketches of Creation

Publisher

Harper & Brothers, New York

Publication Date

1874

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

First Edition.

Condition

Very Good

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Science & Mathematics

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Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA
IL, U.S.A.

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