1896, The Evolution of Man.. Human Ontology.. by Ernst Haeckel, 3/4 LEATHER, VG

Description: Fully titled, The Evolution of Man : A Popular Exposition of the Principal Points of Human Ontogeny and Phylogeny. Authored by Ernst Haeckel, translated from German. Published by D. Appleton & Company in 1896, the back of the title page (the copyright page) the words, "Authorized Edition" appears. This is a later English Edition; the earliest date I could find, which I presume is the First English Edition, was 1879. The leather spines and corners have been refurbished and sealed, and the original gilt titles appear in clear gilt. Marble boards, gilt page tops, plain endpapers with what looks like an original owner bookplate with a book number (of his/her library?) overlain with a modern owner and an address label. This appears in both books, with sequential book numbers. Many unopened pages throughout in both volumes - see listing photo for one example. xxviii, 467; xviii, 504pp, index, PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED IN BOTH VOLUMES WITH B&W WITHIN-TEXT ILLUSTRATIONS. There is a frontispiece in Vol 1, none in Vol. 2 Here is the opening of an online early review of this 2-Vol set, published in 1879 (appearing in two parts in the 12 April and 19 April 1879 issues of The Academy): "Prof. Haeckel is well known as one of the most energetic workers and advanced thinkers among German biologists. For more than thirty years he has devoted himself to the study of the animal kingdom with especial reference to the theory of development, and he has perhaps done as much to extend and popularise that theory as Darwin himself. Besides a long series of publications in various departments of biology, he has written two great popular works--The History of Creation, in which the development of the whole animal and vegetable kingdom is systematically traced out, and the present volumes, which treat in more detail the entire history of man's evolution, both as an individual from the parental germ, and as an animal species from the most rudimentary form of individualised animal life through a progressive series of more and more specialised animal types. The present work is intended to render the facts of human germ history and development accessible to the educated public. It is founded on the researches of the most eminent modern anatomists and embryologists--Baer, Kölliker, Schwann, Huxley, Weissmann, and Gegenbaur, together with Haeckel's own discoveries in the history and development of many of the lower animals..." Cliff's Books SLL

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