THE ORIGIN OF CIVILIZATION AND THE PRIMITIVE CONDITION OF MAN; Mental and Social Condition of Savages
New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1870. B&W plates & engravings. First American Edition. Decorated cloth. 8vo, green blind-stamped boards with a gilt-embossed native on the spine; B&W illustrations (including frontispiece & 4 B&W plates & 20 figures); t.e.g., Index, xvi + 380 pages & [8] ads [including one for Darwin's, The Origin of Species]. Good. Item #48
Seminal Study by Sir John Lubbock, PC, DL, FRS (1834 - 1913), who was an English banker, Liberal politician, philanthropist, pathfinding scientist and polymath. Lubbock made significant contributions in archaeology, ethnography, and several branches of biology. He coined the terms "Palaeolithic" and "Neolithic" to denote the Old and New Stone Ages. He helped establish archaeology as a scientific discipline, and was also influential in nineteenth-century debates concerning evolutionary theory.
Interestingly, Lubbock in 1870 cites Darwin's, Origin of Species; Animals and Plants under Domestication; & Researches in Geology and Natural History.
Solid copy with clean pages lightly toned and unfoxed plates. Dark green blind-stamped cloth (gilt & text on spine faded); covers worn with some spots; corners worn & bumped; diagonal cut and 6" tear line--imperfectly repaired--on rear cover. Occasional tiny nicks to page edges; ink smear [1/2' x 3/8"] p.5 Erasure of penciled notes barely visible on rear endpaper after Ads. Top (1/2") of spine abraided.
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