Darwiniana:
Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1876 Stock Code: 146048
First edition of this important explanation of how religion and science were not necessarily mutually exclusive. The American botanist Asa Gray (1810-1888) was an intimate friend and correspondent of Charles Darwin and is generally considered the most influential American botanist of the 19th century.
In the second volume of her highly regarded biography, Charles Darwin: The Power of Place (2003), Janet Browne cites him as saying "no other person understands me so thoroughly as Asa Gray. If I ever doubt what I mean myself, I think I shall ask him!" (p. 135).
Description
Octavo. Original brown cloth, titles in gilt to spine and front board, decorative frames in black to front board and blind to rear board, pale yellow coated endpapers.
Illustrations
8 pp. of publisher's advertisements at end.
Condition
A hint of wear to corners, the binding otherwise sound and unfaded, internally clean; a fresh copy.
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