Man Rises to Parnassus: Critical Epochs in the Prehistory of Man. (Signed by Henry Fairfield Osborn.)

Frontispiece, xix, 216 pp, 1 leaf; illus. Original cloth. Very Good. Six Lectures to the Students of Princeton University on the Louis Clark Vanuxem Foundation, 1927. The 1928 2nd edition is considerably more common. Presentation copy, inscribed: "To/Eberly Hutchinson/with the new/year greetings/of the author/Henry Fairfield Osborn/January 5th/1929". Eberly Hutchinson (November 3, 1871 – March 8, 1951) was an American civil engineer and politician from New York. He was born on November 3, 1871, in Johnstown, Fulton County, New York, the son of S. G. Hutchinson and Katherine (Eberly) Hutchinson. He attended Ohio State University, enrolled in 1891 at Harvard College, and graduated A.B. in 1895. He also received an M.E. degree, and became a mining engineer, working in California and Mexico. Later he lived in Caroga, New York, near the Canada and Green lakes in Fulton County. Hutchinson was a member of the New York State Assembly (Fulton & Hamilton Co.) in 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930 and 1931. He was Chairman of the Committee on Insurance from 1922 to 1924; and Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means from 1925 to 1931. He died on March 8, 1951, in Los Angeles, California,[2] and was buried at the Johnstown Cemetery. …