IRVINE, WILLIAM

Apes, Angels & Victorians

London, Readers Union. 1956. Hard Cover, 8.5 x 5.5 inches. No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, tiny bump to spine foot and no bumping to very sharp corners. Dusty dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with rubbing/nicks to upper edge. 278pp. A joint biography of Charles Darwin and Thomas Henry Huxley, the latter known as Darwin's Bulldog for his advocacy of Darwin's theory of evolution. Near Fine/Near Very Good.

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Book number: 015191

Catalogue: Biography - Engineering / Science

Keywords: Biography, Darwin, Huxley

RUSINEK, MICHAL

Land of Nicholas Copernicus

New York, Twayne Publishers Inc. 1973. Hard Cover, 10.75 x 8.75 inches. Ill.: Magdalena Rusinek-Kwilecka (photographs). No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright boards, slight rubbing to rear and minor bumping to one corner and lower edge. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with signs of storage. 235pp. The life of the great Polish astronomer Copernicus against the background of the times (fifteenth/sixteenth centuries), the world in which he lived and the planet he launched on its orbit round the sun, thus initiating the Copernican era and a revolution in man's concept of the universe. With a number of tipped-in coloured plates, sixty pages of text and around 170 pages of captioned black & white photographs. Very Good (+)/Very Good (+).

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Book number: 006657

Catalogue: Biography - Engineering / Science

Keywords: Poland, Astronomy, History, Fifteenth Century Magdalena Rusinek-Kwilecka (Photographs)