Category: Religion

The Origin of Species Revisited. The Theories of Evolution and of Abrupt Appearance

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Philosophical Library : 1989

Seller ID: 490

MASSIVE 1,114-PAGE DOCUMENTATION CONTRASTING EVOLUTIONARY THEORY AND ABRUPT APPEARANCE (CREATIONISM). Two volumes, 9 1/4 inches tall hardcover, publisher's black cloth boards, gilt title to spines, xvi, 551 pp; xix, 563 pp; very good in very good dust jackets. FROM DUST JACKET: The Origin of Species Revisited is a comprehensive, thoroughly documented investigation of one of the great ongoing battles of this or any age: Darwin's theory of evolution versus the theory of creation and the theory of abrupt appearance. W. R. Bird, who argued the major case on the issue before the U.S. Supreme Court,...
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A Faithless World, reprinted by permission form The Contemporary Review; with additions and a preface

By: Cobbe, Frances Power

Price: $200.00

Publisher: London, Williams and Norgate : 1885

Seller ID: 1047

1885 CONDEMNATION OF LOSS OF RELIGION IN CONTEMPORARY SCIENCE (INCLUDING DARWINISM) BY PROMINENT BRITISH ANTIVIVISECTIONIST, INSCRIBED TO COLLEAGUE. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, olive green cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, Author's inscription front flyleaf, "For Benjamin Bryan, With her very kind regards from his Friend & Colleague Frances Power Cobbe, June, 1885", institutional library handstamps to title page and last page, 41 pp, list of recent works by the author. Wear to cover edges, small library call numbers lower corner of cover, front flyleaf detached, hinges cracked but...
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The Direction of Human Evolution

By: Conklin, Edwin Grant

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons : 1921

Seller ID: 442

LECTURES BY E.G. CONKLIN, DELIVERED IN NORTH CAROLINA IN 1920, CONTRAST EVOLUTION, SCIENCE AND RELIGION 5 YEARS BEFORE SCOPES TRIAL. 8 inches tall hardcover, publisher's red cloth binding, gilt title to spine, frontis of busts of 3 prehistoric men, covers and spine darkened, light foxing/soiling to first and last pages, binding tight, pages crisp and unmarked, very good minus. EDWIN GRANT CONKLIN (1863 - 1952) was professor of biology at Ohio Wesleyan (1891-94) and professor of zoology at Northwestern University (1894-96), the University of Pennsylvania (1896-1908), and Princeton University (1...
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A Commentary of Medical and Moral Life; or Mind and the Emotions, considered in relation to Health, Disease, and Religion

By: Cooke, William

Price: $45.00

Publisher: London, Longman, Brown, & Co. : 1852

Seller ID: 969

1852 SCARCE MONOGRAPH ON THE MIND-BODY CONNECTION, PHYSIOLOGY OF EMOTIONS, AND IMPORTANCE OF RELIGION IN MEDICINE. 8 inches tall hardcover, recent red buckram binding, gilt title to spine, xvi, 304 pp; covers and endpapers as new, title page and table of contents with chipped edges, remainder of text pages age-toned, unmarked, good+. CONTENTS include: Diversity of natural constitution in mind and body; Value of religion to medical men; Sketch of the construction and functions of the human body, with the evidences of design; Characteristics of emotions: sanguineous, choleric, phelgmatic, melanc...
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The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb

By: Crumb, Robert

Price: $900.00

Publisher: New York, W. W. Norton : 2009

Seller ID: 1270

2009 SIGNED COPY OF R. CRUMB'S MASTERPIECE, THE BOOK OF GENESIS, WITH SIGNED SERIGRAPH PRINT IN SLIPCASE, COPY 155 OF 250 LIMITED EDITION--NOW TRANSLATED INTO 10 LANGUAGES. 8 3/4 x 11 1/8 inches hardcover, black cloth binding with gilt title, in 9 x 11 1/2 inch black cloth slipcase with color image of the expulsion of Adam and Eve from Eden, unpaginated, illustrations, signed book together with signed 8 x 10 inch 9 color serigraph print (by Alex Wood of Wildwood Serigraphs)--unopened in original clear plastic shrink wrap, #155 from edition limited to 250. First published October 2009, R. Crumb...
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Consolations in Travel, or the Last Days of a Philosopher

By: Davy, Humphry

Price: $300.00

Publisher: London, John Murray : 1830

Seller ID: 1238

1830 FIRST EDITION EARLY VICTORIAN BESTSELLER ON THE ROLE OF SCIENCE IN SOCIETY BY AN EMINENT BRITISH CHEMIST. 6 1/2 x 4 inches hardcover, 3/4 leather binding with marbled boards, gilt title to spine, bookplate to front paste-down, vi, [vi], 281, [i]. Corners bumped, wear to covers, bottom 3/4 inches of spine chipped, binding tight, text unmarked, very good minus in custom archival mylar cover. SIR HUMPHRY DAVY (1778 - 1829) was a Cornish chemist and inventor. Berzelius called Davy's 1806 Bakerian Lecture On Some Chemical Agencies of Electricity one of the best memoirs which has ever enriched ...
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Genesis and Geology: A Study of Scientific Thought, Natural Theology, and Social Opinion in Great Britain, 1790-1850

By: Gillispie, Charles Coulston

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Harvard University Press : 1969

Seller ID: 458

LANDMARK HISTORY OF THE IMPACT OF SCIENCE ON RELIGION. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, red cloth binding, gilt title to spine, near fine/good dust jacket. CHARLES COULSTON GILLISPIE (1918 - 2015) was an American historian of science. He attended Wesleyan University, graduating in 1940 with a major in Chemistry and gained his PhD from Harvard University in 1949. He joined the Department of History at Princeton University, establishing the Program in History of Science at Princeton in the 1960s. He was president of the History of Science Society from 1965-66.
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Essays on Human Evolution

By: Keith, Arthur

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Watts & Co. : 1946

Seller ID: 443

1946 ESSAYS ON EVOLUTION AND SOCIETY, INCLUDING AN EVOLUTIONARY INTERPRETATION OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR. 8 3/4 inches tall hardcover, publisher's blue cloth boards, edges lightly rubbed, in custom archival mylar cover, very good. SIR ARTHUR KEITH (1866 - 1955) was a Scottish anatomist and anthropologist, and the Hunterian Professor and conservator of the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. A leading figure in the study of human fossils, he became President of the Royal Anthropological Institute. The latter role stimulated his interest in the subject of human evolutio...
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L'Existence de Dieu Demontree par les Merveilles de la Nature en Trois Parties; Ou l'on Traite de la Structure du Corps de l'Homme, des Elemens, des Astres, et de Leurs Divers Effets

By: Nieuwentyt, Bernard

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Amsterdam and Leipzig, Arkstee and Merkus : 1760

Seller ID: 885

1760 FRENCH EDITION OF TREATISE BY DUTCH PHYSICIAN AND PHILOSOPHER ARGUING FOR NATURE AS EVIDENCE FOR THE EXISENCE OF GOD, ILLUSTRATED BY COPPER PLATE ENGRAVINGS. 10 inches tall hardcover, full leather binding, spine with raised bands, tooled gilt compartments, gilt title on red leather label, edges stained red, marbled endpapers, institutional library bookplate to front paste-down, [2], engraved frontis, red and black printed title page, [6], engraved portrait of author, 1-584, [12], 28 folding engraved plates. Covers worn, joints cracked, hinges starting, front flyleaf and half title loose, ...
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Christian Science. An Exposition of Mrs. Eddy's Wonderful Discovery, including its Legal Aspects. A Plea for Children and other Helpless Sick

By: Purrington, William A.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, E. B. Treat & Co. : 1900

Seller ID: 914

1900 COLLECTION OF 30 CASES OF MEDICAL MALPRACTICE BY CHRISTIAN SCIENCE HEALERS--SIGNED BY AUTHOR, AN ATTORNEY LECTURER AT BELLEVUE HOSPITAL. 8 1/4 inches tall hardcover, tan cloth binding, printed decorative title to cover, inscribed and signed by author on front flyleaf, frontis photograph of child's gangrenous foot treated by a healer, 194 pp, spine darkened, corners lightly bumped, very good. WILLIAM ARCHER PURRINGTON (1852 - 1926) was Lecturer in the University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College, upon Law in Relation to Medical Practice.
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The Tennessee Cause Celebre

By: Wells, Gabriel

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Garden City, NY, Doubleday, Page & Co. : 1925

Seller ID: 475

1925 RARE FIRST EDITION OF ANTI-EVOLUTION, ANTI-CREATIONIST PAMPHLET ON THE SCOPES MONKEY TRIAL BY NOTED AMERICAN BOOKSELLER. 9 1/4 inches tall blue paper covers, printed paper label to cover, stapled 10-page pamphlet. Covers soiled with edgewear, text unmarked, very good. A reactionary perspective on evolution by an opinionated American bookseller, who notes, The inherent tendency of plants and animals--of all animate things below man--is not evolution but involution, as that of things inanimate is devolution. ... I am impelled to the conclusion, that man alone is capable of progress--that ma...
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Category: Religion