Hardcover
1885 · London
by Warren, William
London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1885. Hardcover. Very Good. Scarce. British edition, published the same year as the first edition in America. Written and initially received as science, Warren posits the North Pole as the source of all life, simultaneously Eden and Atlantis. A contemporary review in Science notes that "The book is very ingenious and learned, but, as it seems to us, conceived and written in the spirit of advocacy rather than in the true scientific spirit....Yet we believe the book may be read with profit, even by the scientific anthropologist".
Green cloth covers, wear and loss of cloth to corners, head and tail, worn patches on both joints. Previous owner's name in pencil on flyleaf, in pen on title page. Plates and illustrations in the text. Xxiv, [2], 505pp. 32 page publisher's catalog dated October, 1884. (Inventory #: 2024-Q32)
Green cloth covers, wear and loss of cloth to corners, head and tail, worn patches on both joints. Previous owner's name in pencil on flyleaf, in pen on title page. Plates and illustrations in the text. Xxiv, [2], 505pp. 32 page publisher's catalog dated October, 1884. (Inventory #: 2024-Q32)
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