Publisher:
Washington, Government Printing Office : 1910
Seller ID: 915
1910 IRVING FISHER'S REPORT TO THE NATION ON THE IMPORTANCE OF PUBLIC HEALTH IN PROLOGATION OF LIFE. 9 inches tall hardcover, 3/4 leather on red cloth boards, gilt name (John T. Swift) to front cover, marbled edges and endpapers, paginated 620 to 751, graph of survivorship curves; cover edges rubbed, binding tight, very good. Cited by Comfort in The Science of Human Perfection (2012): "Under the Committee's auspices, in 1909 Fisher wrote the Report on National Vitality, a 138-page essay that marshaled his skills as an economist. If we appraise a human life at only $1700, he wrote, and each yea... View More...
Publisher:
Lancaster, PA, The Jaques Cattell Press : 1942
Seller ID: 135
1942 ILLUSTRATED POPULAR EUGENICS TEXT FOR AMATEURS! 10 inches tall hardcover, 299 pages, blue cloth binding, gilt title on spine, 234 photographic illustrations. Covers bright and clean, previous owner's signature front paste-down, no other marks, very good. PREFACE: 'This book is written for amateurs in the study of human heredity and for those who are interested in personal inheritance of family traits. It is a simple presentation mainly by photographs of many of the normal traits appearing in families of two or more successive generations. During the past centuries nearly all of the emphas... View More...
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