first edition Hardcover
1894 · New York
by OWEN, Richard
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1894. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition. Two volume set. Octavos. Complete with frontispiece plates and five additional plates, and illustrations throughout the text. Maroon publisher's cloth, gilt titles. Small ownership signature on the front free endpapers. Scattered foxing to the frontispiece plates, upper hinge in volume one a little loose, very good or better. A leading comparative anatomist and paleontologist, Richard Owen was one of the most influential natural scientists of his generation, and Darwin's most bitter and serious opponent. The American edition is scarce in the trade. A handsome set. (truncated)
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