Description:
Darwin, Charles (1809-1882) Lot of Five Related Titles. Including: Karl Pearson's The Grammar of Science, London: Adam & Charles Black, 1900, octavo, cloth; Alfred Haddon's Evolution in Art, London: Walter Scott, 1895, octavo, cloth; Karl Pearson's Charles Darwin, an Appreciation, London: Cambridge University Press, 1923; Herbert Spencer on the Americans, and the Americans on Herbert Spencer, New York: Appleton, 1883, octavo, cloth; [and] William Bateson's Materials of the Study of Variation Treated with Especial Regard to Discontinuity in the Origin of Species, London: Macmillan, 1894, octavo, cloth. (5)
Estimate $350-450
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Keywords
Cambridge University Press, Walter Scott, Charles Black, Alfred Haddon, LondonJohn Dorfman
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