Erasmus Darwin. With a preliminary notice by Charles Darwin
by Krause, Ernst
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine (as new) copy.
- ISBN 10
- 0576292109
- ISBN 13
- 9780576292108
- Seller
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Iowa City, Iowa, United States
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About This Item
Westmead, UK: Gregg International Publishers, 1971. Reprint. Fine (as new) copy.. Pp. iv, 216, frontis portrait, 1 woodcut plate. Publisher's forest green cloth, gilt-lettered on the spine, sm 8vo. This is the only reprint of the rare 1879 first English edition published by John Murray in London. This work was first published in a journal format in Germany in February 1879. It presents a biography of the life of Erasmus Darwin.
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- Bookseller
- Natural History Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2640
- Title
- Erasmus Darwin. With a preliminary notice by Charles Darwin
- Author
- Krause, Ernst
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0576292109
- ISBN 13
- 9780576292108
- Publisher
- Westmead, UK: Gregg International Publishers, 1971. Reprint
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- December 1968
- Keywords
- Darwin evolutionary biology biography Erasmus Darwin Natural Sciences ISBN: 0576292109 / 0-576-29210-9
- Bookseller catalogs
- Darwiniana;
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